Dorothy Leigh Sayers Quotes
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
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I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
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Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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If all else fails, birdie the last.
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This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.
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I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.
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Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
