Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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I didn't want readers to think I was asking to be praised for taking care of my wife while she was ill. Lots of people are heroic, more heroic than I was, when faced with the suffering of someone they love.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
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The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate.
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I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.
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Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.
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I don't necessarily support Romney, I don't consider myself a Republican. I'm pretty much an independent.
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In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.
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All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves.
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Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.
