Kenneth Williams Quotes
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
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I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
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Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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'Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….' He turned to me. 'But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.'
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They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
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A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
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One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
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Oh – what's the bloody point?
