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Quotes by Welsh Authors
"I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning."
"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
"It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument."
"We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them."
"No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists."
"Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having."
"And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two."
"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."
"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."
"There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind."
"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."
"It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before."
"And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed."
"Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people."
"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
"Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told."
"I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine."
"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff."
"Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one."
"Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter."
"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."
"Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky."
"At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that."
"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
"Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains."
"To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key."
"The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised."
"I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!"
"A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman."
"But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me."
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