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 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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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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For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.
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There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated.
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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
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Every franchise of both leagues will remain in its present location.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.
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Oh – what's the bloody point?
