Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft Quotes

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

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• They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

  

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• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

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• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  

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• I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.

  

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• Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

  

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• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

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• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

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• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

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• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

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• Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

  

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• It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!

  

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• I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.

  

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• It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

  

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• My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.

  

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• Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.

  

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• But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

  

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• I could use a little extra cash.

  

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• I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

  

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• I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

  

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• I am happy that we are not favorites. To be very honest it's big pressure of being favorites. We were not favorites last time (in 2011) too but we played excellent cricket. Similarly this time, there are teams which play on those bouncy wickets like Australia and South Africa, and are probably bigger favorites than us. But we hope that with the type of resources we have we can do well.

  

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• Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

  

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• Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

  

  Benjamin Lloyd Stormont Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
  • English
  • Eternity
  • Cricket