George Singleton Quotes
Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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I love to push myself.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
