Philip Guedalla Quotes
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
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Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.
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Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
