W. S. Gilbert Quotes
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.
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You know, I go to work in a great office every day, and the amount of freedom that goes with being a pro golfer on the tour is awesome. So I get to enjoy my weeks off away from the course, and then I get to go to work on some of the best golf courses in the world out here.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
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I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets.
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
