John Betjeman Quotes
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
Victoria Moran -
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
D. B. Sweeney -
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley -
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
Kate Reardon -
Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
Ice Cube -
I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
G. Willow Wilson -
I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
Paloma Faith -
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
Nancy Wake
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When liberty returns, I will return.
Victor Hugo -
As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
Gary Ackerman -
What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
Iain Sinclair -
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.
Dane Cook -
We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
Maeve Binchy -
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
Bayard Taylor
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A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.
Aldous Huxley -
I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.
Neal Cassady -
Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
Barry Sheene -
It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.
Dido Armstrong -
We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?
Gar Alperovitz -
Hymns are the poetry of the people.
John Betjeman