Aneurin Bevan Quotes
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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'Soft Matter' Nobel lecture (9 December 1991)
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Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.
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At the end of the day, I think Donald Trump will be the great unifier of the Democratic Party.
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Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
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When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place of Positive Energy - then that which is 'negative energy' simply can't mix with you. It defies Law. If you are very strong and clear about your positive wanting, and feeling it, then 'bad' things simply cannot get in. Colds can't get in, car accidents can't get in, anything that you are not wanting cannot be your personal experience.
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The Labour Party should oppose the Government arms plan root and branch.
