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“If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.”
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“What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country,”
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“It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.”
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“Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.”
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“Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.”
Source : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press
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“Ever drive by one of those things on the highway which tells you how fast you're going? I don't even pay attention to them anymore because I found a similar gadget in my dashboard... Some people slow down at those things... I don't slow down. I speed up and set the high score.”
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“It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.”
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“The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.”
Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That Old Birds are not to be Caught with Chaff", 1846.
