William Beckett Quotes
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
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An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
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I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.
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I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
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I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous.
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.
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When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.
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Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness—for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee—and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still.
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The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind of sectarian competition that has torn so many nations apart, and which our separation of church and state has spared us.
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I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.
