Eddie Campbell Quotes

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.

Eddie Campbell

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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

Saffron Aldridge
- Life
- Mother
- Morning
An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

Garrett Hardin
- Values
- Act
- Attack
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

J. G. Ballard
- Writing
- Done
- Truth
M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.

Laraine Day
- Break
- Roles
- Pictures
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Napoleon Bonaparte
- Death
- Fear
- Enemy
The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

Felicity Kendal
- Men
- Women
- Problem