"You've only got to be in public life for about a week before you start to question if the newspapers are even giving you today's date with any accuracy!"

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Source : Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

Jonathan Lynn

#Giving Quotes #Today Quotes #Journalism Quotes

“Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.”
“The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.”
“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”
“what was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at it?”

Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”
“Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.”
“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
“When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.”
“Getting bored is not allowed.”

Source : Kay Thompson (2015). “Eloise: Book & CD”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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