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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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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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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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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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 black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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I can't sing or dance.
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When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on a box trying to create a drum sound in a dry little studio. Everyone goes, 'Great - okay, now on with my day.' You go back to the bus, and you weep.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.
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I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
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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.
