"I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion."

-- Alexei Sayle

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Common Quotes

“When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.”
“Photographs are never records of the way things are; they're records of the way things were.”
“One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.”
“Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a dream. Today is the day to make your markâ€”to make a difference.”

Source : Shawn Phillips (2008). “Strength for Life: The Fitness Plan for the Rest of Your Life”, p.179, Ballantine Books
“We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.”

Source : Charles Kennedy's speech to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2002.
“One thing will not change - we will be going out to win.”
“I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.”

Source : Anthony Powell (2010). “Hearing Secret Harmonies: Book 12 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.84, University of Chicago Press

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