William Magee Quotes
I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
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What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
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As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.
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I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.
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The home studio has taken a bite. People are choosing cheapness over quality. They just don't want to spend the money.
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Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.
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Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely deny or forget, will run the risk either of being destroyed by the others, or of betraying what he knows.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
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Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.
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We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.
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I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.
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Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.
