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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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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.
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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.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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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.
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My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
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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.
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I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.
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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.
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Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'
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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.
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I'm always proud of what I've done and what I continue to do.
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Onstage, I was never the ingenue.
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Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
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Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.
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I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church.
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.
