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Quotes by Welsh Authors
"I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better."
"Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion."
"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."
"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."
"But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me."
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."
"I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it."
"Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance."
"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."
"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."
"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle."
"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee."
"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."
"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."
"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink."
"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."
"Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer."
"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue."
"There is so much that can be done, you see, the assembly is about improving our democracy."
"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."
"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."
"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy."
"It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world."
"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."
"I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals."
"There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You."
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