Augustine Birrell Quotes
There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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The first two projects I did out of my dorm room were mock film soundtracks.
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I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.
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Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
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Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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Each one of these bodies art-works which Arp made certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name.
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Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.
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For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.
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I am a primate; nothing about primates is alien to me. Paraphrasing Latin playwright Terence's words: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto (I am a man; nothing about men is alien to me).
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There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
