Ernest Bramah Quotes
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Who does understand life?
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Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
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Cause I'm still hood, Hollywood couldn't change me.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Language is the tool of the tools.
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Sending our Armed Forces across an international border clearly is a major political decision, with profound implications for Britain's international relations.
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Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce.
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If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and "Have I learned something valuable?" then you have failed in the right way. By these standards, I've failed many times in my career. But every failure has made me stronger and wiser. Inevitably, success has always followed.
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There's a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.
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I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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You pitch up there at this level, you're going to pay the price. It was my fault.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.
