Eden Phillpotts Quotes
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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If you really want to see something scary, turn on the nightly news. To me, for people to say 'look at the films' is ludicrous. The world we live in needs to change.
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I love to work with people who are great at what they do.
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The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
