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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Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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We are a people unafraid to welcome 'your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,' because we measure others by the quality of their hopes for the future, not by the circumstances of their birth.
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Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
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With the video for Boulevard of Broken Dreams we were going for something a bit like Ladykillers, you know? Pretty and demented at the same time...like me!
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Oh – what's the bloody point?
