Elton Welsby (Roger Elton Welsby) Quotes
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
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You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.
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Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Why don't we get drunk and screw?
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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
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The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
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We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.
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Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.
