Cynthia Payne Quotes
Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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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.
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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.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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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.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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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.
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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.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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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.
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He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
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I'm the most successful bad player ever.
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Shrine of the mighty! can it beThat this is all remains of thee?
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I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.
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Going to a party uninvited always has been a negative action. It never has been acceptable. At the very least, it upsets kitchen preparations, parking arrangements, and even details such as space for hanging coats and depositing dripping umbrellas.
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Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
