Margery Allingham Quotes
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
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At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.
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For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
