William Gurnall Quotes
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
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I don’t get sick of either of those songs. When we play them, they get such a huge enthusiastic response – how can you get sick of that?? And I think they are both good songs, interesting to perform – we develop them live all the time.
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
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The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
