William Edmondstoune Aytoun Quotes
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And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.
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It's important to have a dream no matter how old you are.
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Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
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You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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If the Bible is true, then I'm Christ.
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I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.
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He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.
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If you don't start somewhere, you're gonna go nowhere.
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Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
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The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the question - but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.
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Nowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid!
