"The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was."

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Source : "Libraries cater for the middle classes, not the deprived, says John Redwood" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

John Redwood

#Self Quotes #Library Quotes #Improvement Quotes

“I believe that you understand a church only when you kneel in it.”
“Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.”
“I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.”
“It's so archaic. It's just, like, bizarre to me. I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'”
“I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.”
“It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.”
“Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.”
“I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.”

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