Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers Quotes
Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
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After school, my sister and I helped our mom in the garden. We grew potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes - not for fun, but to eat.
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I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
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When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don't know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.
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We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that matter, genocide is peace when you get right down to it. The historical consequences of a philosophy predicated on the notion of no war at any cost are families flying to the Super Bowl accompanied by three or four trusted slaves and a Europe devoid of a single living Jew.
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Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.
