Edward St Aubyn Quotes
No doubt his grandmother and his great-grandfather had hoped to empower a senator, enrich a great art collection or encourage a dazzling marriage, but in the end they had mainly subsidized idleness, drunkenness, treachery and divorce.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I don't like allegories.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.
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A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.
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What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.
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Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.
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Entrepreneurship is an art, not a job.
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No doubt his grandmother and his great-grandfather had hoped to empower a senator, enrich a great art collection or encourage a dazzling marriage, but in the end they had mainly subsidized idleness, drunkenness, treachery and divorce.
