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Quotes by Welsh Authors
"I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience."
"I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access."
"My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now."
"Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture."
"All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can."
"Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink."
"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."
"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time."
"I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise."
"Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?"
"But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me."
"It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards."
"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."
"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle."
"In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world."
"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
"At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that."
"But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan."
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."
"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
"We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary."
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