Caitlin Thomas Quotes
[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.
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It was once religion which threatened us with a last judgment at the end of days. It is now our tortured planet which predicts the arrival of such a day without any heavenly intervention.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.
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A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
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Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
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Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.
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A bird makes the same use of wings and tail in the air as a swimmer does of his arms and legs in the water.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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Without even saying anything, just his eyes... It’s not like he forces you to do it, but the power that he has, it’s something in his spirit. It’s almost like intangible and kind of magical. He has an energy that kind of lifts you. Any doubt that you had is just gone. You just do it – it’s really simple. It was so easy to work with him.'
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My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.
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Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
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My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
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I'm very much a homebody.
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Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.
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All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.
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[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.
