Margery Allingham Quotes
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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I was raised on NBC television.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.
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I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels.
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Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
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I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.
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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
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Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
