William Barclay Quotes
There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
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Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.
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Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.
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The fastest thing computers do is go obsolete.
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Learn early, learn often.
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There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.
