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-- C. V. Wedgwood

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“The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.”
“Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said "Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine," and that's how I met Madeleine. I realize that's a ridiculous story.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.
“Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, â€œIt's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.â€ This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.”
“I like my coffee light.”
“It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave.”
“I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.”
“Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.”
“That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.”

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