Christopher Fry Quotes
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.
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'I think the Holy Grail is a dream that men have, a dream that the world can be made perfect. And if it existed, then we'd all know the dream can't come true.'
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Art today is moving in directions of which our forebears had no inkling; the Horsemen of the Apocalypse are heard galloping through the air; artistic excitement can be felt all over Europe – new artists are signalling to one another from all sides; a glance, a touch of the hand, is enough to convey understanding. co-authored with Wassily Kandinsky
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
