A.J. Cronin Quotes
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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Let me tell you, there's very few places where I don't have an agenda.
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I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.
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I had a reporter ask me how much I weigh. I said to him, 'You go first: How much do you weigh?' People always ask me what I eat. Other artists don't get asked these questions.
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I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.
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When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.
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Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.
