"The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football."

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Source : Hesketh Pearson (1938). “Thinking it Over: The Reminiscences of Hesketh Pearson”

Hesketh Pearson

#Soccer Quotes #Football Quotes

“I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.”
“My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.”
“We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence....”
“There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial rulers, and they looked to God for deliverance from the tyranny of their pharaoh, George III.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.”
“Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
“I love vinyl, but I'm not a 'vinyl person'. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital.”
“Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.”

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