G.A. Henty Quotes

The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.

G.A. Henty

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• I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

  

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• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

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• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

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• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

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• My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

  

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• I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

  

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• I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.

  

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• A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  

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• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  

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• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  

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• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

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• I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

  

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• You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

  

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• My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

  

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• In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

  

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• Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.

  

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• Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

  

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• I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

  

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• I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

  

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• The bird that has taught its nestling to fly does not try to keep it in the nest, when it is once able to take care of itself.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Fly
  • Bird
  • Taught