E. F. Benson Quotes
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.
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We decided we didn't want to do a musical for TV because the idea of writing a musical that would be seen on television once seems insane.
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
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I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.
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I was never challenged when it came to acting as a youngster. I sort of just did whatever was given to me without asking questions. I didn't really understand why I enjoyed it or why I did it.
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Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
