"Life's a pudding full of plums."

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Source : W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.965, Oxford University Press

W. S. Gilbert

#Life Quotes #Pudding Quotes #Plums Quotes

“These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.”
“I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the SÃ¡mi culture, was not good enough, so I wanted to be Norwegian or European, I wanted to forget the culture. And then this music started to... in a way I had to ask myself "why is this, and what does all this come from?”
“So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.”

Source : Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December, 10 1990.
“I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.”
“Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person's awakening.”
“I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character â€“ not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire, that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved ... The great novelists have brought us to see whatever they wish us to see through some character. Otherwise they would not be novelists, but poet, historians, or pamphleteers.”
“When you are not sure what to do now just keep doing what God told you to do last!”
“I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.”

Source : "Julian Ovenden: 'The iPhone is surely the must-have gadget'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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