Philip Guedalla Quotes
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
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I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world.
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I think it is rewarding to manage, but it is not what I am passionate about. Managing more than 200 people, maybe 150 people, isn't fun to me and is not my skill set.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.
