"At uni I met a lot of people I had nothing in common with. Some were very clever, some very rich, some very sporty. Some of them became my best friends, but not at first. Having things in common isn't always the best start to a friendship. I'd stick with it! Also, try to chat to people when they're on their own. So many people feel they need to perform in big groups."

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Source : "Ask John: university advice from comedian John Robins". The Telegraph interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 16, 2017.

John Robins

#Clever Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.”
“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.”
“It was a battle all day with our M&M's Camry. I don't know why, we just didn't have what we needed. We never seemed to have the ticket we needed today. We got better all day, which was a positive and salvaged something out of nothing -- so all things considering it was okay. It's so late in the year, you're just running laps now and getting what you can get and seeing if you can win next weekend at Homestead to finish the year.”
“The acting world is a humbling experience, I find.”

Source : "District 9 star Sharlto Copley". Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. August 13, 2009.
“I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.”
“I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.51, Faber & Faber
“Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.”
“I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.”

Source : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 47), 1999.

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