Max Beerbohm Quotes
She was one of those people who say 'I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like.'
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I will never leave the theater. My heart is there, and I love being on stage 8 times a week.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.
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You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.
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I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.
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She was one of those people who say 'I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like.'
