Edmund Crispin Quotes

None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

Edmund Crispin

• Characters
• England
• Limits
• Imagining

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• If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
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  • Face
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• The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

  

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• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
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• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Acting

• For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Characters
  • Humane

• The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Book
  • Want
  • Best

• I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

  

  J. R. Bourne
  • Mind
  • Opportunity
  • Playing

• We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Want
  • Explore
  • Limits

• I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Characters
  • Experiences
  • Pattern

• You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Time
  • Know
  • Characters

• I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Music
  • Working
  • England

• There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Limits
  • Infinity
  • Goes On

• The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Up
  • England
  • Sum

• When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • England
  • Plane
  • Inches

• I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Enough
  • England
  • Meat

• A lot of so-called rich, according to this legislation, make $250,000. That's a lot of money, but it is not rich.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • Money
  • Legislation

• We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Know
  • Fish
  • Flow

• I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Me
  • Childhood

• I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Car

• None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Characters
  • England
  • Limits