Angela Thirkell Quotes

If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

Angela Thirkell

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• I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

  

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• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

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• One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

  

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• On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

  

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• I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.

  

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• I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

  

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• I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

  

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• This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.

  

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• Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

  

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• I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.

  

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• I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.

  

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• The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

  

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• There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

  

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• Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.

  

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• The thing I miss about Russia the most is what is called 'black bread.' It's rye bread, and everyone eats it. I slice mine up and put sunflower oil and salt on it... the best thing ever. It was like a little treat for me when I was a kid.

  

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• If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.

  

  Angela Thirkell
  • Play
  • Heaven
  • Pleasure