Cyril Connolly Quotes
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
Quotes to Explore
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.
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I really like cable T.V.
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If you constantly pound your muscles, they'll never have time to repair.
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I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
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I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
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The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
