A. P. Herbert Quotes
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
