Max Beerbohm Quotes
I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
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I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.
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I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.
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If I weren't a matchmaker, I'd be a chef.
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As I stepped out to face myself in the mirror, reaching a hand to smooth away the steam, I saw myself differently. It was as if I had grown again as I slept, but this time just to fit my own size. As if my soul had expanded, filling out the gaps of the height that had burdened me all these months. Like a balloon filling slowly with air, becoming all smooth and buoyant, I felt like I finally fit within myself, edge to edge, every crevice filled.
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The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.
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I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
