Evelyn Waugh Quotes
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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A true champion will fight through anything.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
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Violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easier to use your hands to strike a blow then to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to a problem.
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The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
