Constance Spry Quotes
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
Quotes to Explore
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
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The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander's will, the more the difficulties will increase.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
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I hate to spread rumours: but what else can one do with them?
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First there was space-endless, limitless space, so far from everything, so brutal, so frigid, so uncaring that it numbed the mind, not so much from fear or loneliness as from the realization that in this eternity of space the thing that was himself was dwarfed to an insignificance no yardstick could measure.
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My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.
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'Technology is dangerous.''How do you mean?''It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.'
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I am not gonna die because I failed as someone else. I am gonna succeed as myself. And I'm gonna stay here and rock the mike until the next Korean-American, fag hag, shit starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place!
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I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.
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China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.
