William Empson Quotes
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you? Are we kind or are we true? Sitting two and two, boys, waiting for the end.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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This town was built on nepotism.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.
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I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he’d had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.
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Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you? Are we kind or are we true? Sitting two and two, boys, waiting for the end.
