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've written thousands of stories, started hundreds of news cycles.
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Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)
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I want to be on the pitch, and I want to be cool.
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I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
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When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
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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.
