"Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free."

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Source : "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

Simon Hoggart

#Museums Quotes #Government Quotes #Theatre Quotes

“I love playing music. And that's what it's all about.”
“Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
“I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.”
“Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.”

Source : Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.167, Open Road Media
“I am definitely not a light packer. My thought is you never know what the weather will be like or what you will feel like wearing that day, so I always have multiple bags with me - even for a two-day trip.”

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“An Army is still a crowd, though a highly organized one. It is governed by the same laws, and under the stress of war is ever tending to revert to its crowd form. Our object in peace is so to train it that the reversion will become very slow.”
“What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.”
“It felt, like, so far from - or far enough from the reality of things that we can enjoy it purely as entertainment. And now it feels a little bit too in alignment, honestly, but yeah - so we'll see how season five [House of Cards] goes over there.”

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