Edgar Wallace Quotes
London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.
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I don't need to impress children.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
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We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new born that drops into its place; And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
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God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.
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London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.
