Elton Welsby (Roger Elton Welsby) Quotes

It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

Elton Welsby

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• Interest
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• Deceiving

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• One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

  

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• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
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• It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Real
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• The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Know
  • Judge
  • Writer

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
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• My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Violence
  • View

• A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Truth

• I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.

  

  Jessica Capshaw

• A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
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• Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein

• I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

  

  Jodie Foster
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• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read.

  

  Alice McDermott
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• I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself.

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
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• I don't want to think too much about me.

  

  Andrea Arnold

• Auberson’s first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack.

  

  David Gerrold

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Art
  • Book
  • Taken

• It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.

  

  Elton Welsby
  • Church
  • Lying
  • Interest