"I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks."

-- Jeanette Winterson

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“Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.”
“Everyone should respect the sovereignty of the EU countries.”
“Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity exists or not. I think my father believed this because ... when the wind blew on him, he'd get angry, because it was something he couldn't control.”
“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.”

Source : "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.
“Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.”
“If the character has the motivation to dance round trees, then I will dance round trees. If the motivation is strong enough, then I'll fly to the moon.”

Source : "'If the Motivation Is Strong Enough, I'll Fly to the Moon'". Interview with Suparn Verma, www.rediff.com. April 04, 1997.
“There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.”
“'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.”

Source : Peter Biskind (2010). “Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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