Arthur Ransome Quotes
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In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.
Dan Jenkins
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I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.
Pat Garrett
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I love '80s horror.
A. J. Bowen
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By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
Kate Middleton
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
Fernando Pessoa
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
Wallace Stevens
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’Oh, yes, he thinks a lot of you. I remember his very words. 'Mr Wooster, miss' he said 'is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible but he has a heart of gold’
P. G. Wodehouse
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In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse.
Mary Beard
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I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling.
Johnny Depp
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For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
George Eliot
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan
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'Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,'
Arthur Ransome
