"I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar."

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Source : "Pieces of me: Donald Sinden", www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2009.

Donald Sinden

#Sweet Quotes #Brother Quotes #Salmon Quotes

“There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.”

Source : Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1917). “The Social Plays of Arthur Wing Pinero”
“The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.”
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
“When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.”

Source : Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.140, Penguin
“Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.”
“Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the only right way with literature, with study, with people or with anything else: to let it all soak in, to let it all mature slowly inside you until it has become a part of yourself. That, too, is a growing process. Everything is a growing process. And in between, emotions and sensations that strike you like lightning. But still the most important thing is the organic process of growing.”
“Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.”

Source : The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. February 19, 2007.

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