"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."

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Source : "ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER; Breathing Rarefied Air", www.nytimes.com. May 6, 1990.

Brendan Behan

#Funny Quotes #Editors Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.”
“I felt like if I was on Facebook, I would probably spend my days looking at people's profiles, seeing what they do, and feeling bad about not working enough.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.”

Source : "Enterprise Calls Auberjonois". Interview with Michelle Erica Green, www.littlereview.com.
“I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.”

Source : "Fictional character: Tommy". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.
“I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.”
“A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.”
“No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.”

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