"When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat."

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Source : Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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“I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.”
“The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may say things which please, and which are based upon accepted thought, but the right to say the things which displease, the right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.”

Source : Samuel Gompers (1967). “Seventy Years of Life and Labour: An Autobiography”
“I canâ€™t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes arenâ€™t real.â€ I stopped, horrified. â€œI mean, I donâ€™t lookâ€”Itâ€™s hard to see you, and I like looking at your real face, but I donâ€™t try to see anything, becauseâ€”Oh gosh, this sounds terrible.â€ He had a funny look on his face, like he wasnâ€™t sure what to think. â€œHuh. Thatâ€™s never been an issue before. Maybe next time you could bring me some shorts.”
“I also want to try acting - give it a shot - maybe take some lessons, I think that could be fun. I feel like that could even help me with modeling, because in a way you have to act.”
“Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.”
“In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.”
“If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that's a great song.”
“It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.”

Source : "The world, the arts and the artist".

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