Cynthia Payne Quotes

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Cynthia Payne

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• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Devil
  • Angel

• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Death
  • Man
  • Nothing

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Water

• However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Live
  • Man

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• I have no mouth, and I must scream.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Mouth
  • Scream
  • Must

• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Action
  • Like
  • Someone

• The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Know

• If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Help
  • Play
  • Sometimes

• A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Done
  • Fame
  • Manager

• Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Chicago

• I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Mind
  • You
  • Happiest

• To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Me
  • Luxury

• The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Words
  • English
  • Name

• I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

  

  Janis Ian
  • People
  • Real
  • Song

• In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Mean
  • Degrees

• When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Good
  • Smart
  • Preparation

• I was doing a Broadway musical called 'Smile' with Howard Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch in 1984/5 when it abruptly closed. Howard was in the middle of pre-production for 'The Little Mermaid,' so he kindly invited all the girls in our cast to audition for the film.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Smile
  • Mermaid

• Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

  

  Cynthia Payne
  • Action
  • Sex