Edmund Crispin Quotes
Mr Philpotts was a chemistry master whose principal characteristic lay in a sort of unfocused vehemence.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.
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I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.
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Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.
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One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.
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We never talk about gambling around my house.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
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I hope that people see that we're people, we're cool. We have cool jobs and we have unique lives. I hope that's revealed.
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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
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Mr Philpotts was a chemistry master whose principal characteristic lay in a sort of unfocused vehemence.
