Gerald Durrell Quotes
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
Quotes to Explore
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.
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I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.
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The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
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My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
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Wherever there are ski resorts there will be daily updates. These will mostly relay information that is relevant to skiers - imminent snowfall, the likelihood of avalanches and so on - but it will also offer advice on any storm fronts that are expected. For anybody planning a trek, this is crucial information.
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When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.
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He who kisses girl on hillside is not level.
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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.
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I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.
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My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.
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...there's not a single corpse in Shoah (1985). The people who arrived at Treblinka, Belzec or Sobibor were killed within two or three hours and their corpses burned. The proof is not the corpses; the proof is the absence of corpses. There were special details who gathered the dust and threw it into the wind or into the rivers. Nothing of them remained.
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I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
