A. C. Benson Quotes
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.
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I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.
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What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
