James Hilton Quotes
People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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I quit wrestling in 2006 because I just got lost. My mom didn't want me wrestling. I was wondering if I was going to make it in wrestling; I got injured in a match. I was 19. I was away from home, living in Florida, and I just got lost. I couldn't face it, so I stepped away.
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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
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I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.
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People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
