Arthur Helps Quotes
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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You can stroke people with words.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
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I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!
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All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
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I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
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You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.
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I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.
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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
