Walter Hadwen Quotes
A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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By and by an obscure individual, a young man, rose up, and, in the midst of all Christendom, proclaimed the startling news that God had sent an angel to him;... This young man, some four years afterwards, was visited again by a holy angel.
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The best-humour'd man, with the worst-humour'd Muse.
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If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
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Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.
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I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.
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Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
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I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.
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Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
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Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
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I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.
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A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.
