Frank Muir Quotes
The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Slavery in this Country I have seen hanging over it like a black cloud for half a century…
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Once, I tried to channel my inner Pocahontas and wore a lot of Navajo prints, a lot of beige, fringe, and suede... I wish I hadn't done that.
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It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
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I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent.
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Why can't I just be a running back?
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I grew up watching CNN, and my memory of CNN is James Earl Jones saying, 'This is CNN.'
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To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
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I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.
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Everyone thinks I like to sleep. It's not that I like to sleep, it's that I don't like to get up! There is a difference.
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Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.
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My mom always told me to follow my bliss. And I remember specifically with my father, when I was out of school and not knowing how I'd get a job or make money - should I take some classes? What do I do? He said as long as I was working - to enrich myself in some way - that I was on the right path.
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Not that I wouldn't have been equally happy to see the old buddies and see it all start up again that way. But this was more of a work situation, and a very good one.
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I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
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If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.
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My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants.
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As part of my job, I got malaria really badly and was put in intensive care, and I had a hallucination because they give you this cocktail of drugs to fix you so you don't die, and I had this hallucination that I was at the Oscars and I won and I was a really good actress, and it was so real that when I came out of the hospital, I started saying to people I'm going to become an actress.
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You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.
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The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat.
