David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes
I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.
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Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.
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I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.
