Edward St Aubyn Quotes
The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
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I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.
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I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
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Russia has a long history of propaganda and trying to influence various nation's cultures and elections. It's happening. They seem to have stepped up their game.
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Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.
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I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
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Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.
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The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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Music is the space between the notes.
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Nietzsche is never boring. He is always interesting, exciting, thrilling, glittering, breathtaking. He possesses a kind of brilliance and tempo which I believe was unknown in former times.
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Quis iustius induit armascire nefas: magno se iudice quisque tuetur;Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni.
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The financial service industry has an image issue.
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When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.
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The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.
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Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.
