H. G. Wells Quotes

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

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• I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

  

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• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

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• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

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• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

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• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

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• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

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• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

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• Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

  

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• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  

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• One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.

  

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• My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.

  

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• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

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• I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.

  

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• As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

  

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• Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.

  

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• I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

  

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• Steffi has had some results in the past, but it's a faster, more athletic game now than when she played.... She is old now. Her time has passed.

  

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• Le bonheur est, dans l'amour, un état anormal.

  

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• What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?

  

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• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

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• ...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

  

  H. G. Wells
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