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Quotes by Welsh Authors
"But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me."
"We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly."
"Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that."
"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."
"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
"Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction."
"I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses."
"I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest."
"We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier."
"After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films."
"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
"It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience."
"Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven."
"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."
"In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world."
"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."
"Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd."
"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 did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense."
"The spirals of the helix should be as nearly approximated as possible, as each aids by its heat that of its neighbour, or rather diminishes the cooling effect of the gaseous atmosphere."
"A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid."
"My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now."
"There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs."
"It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music."
"The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better."
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