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  • Anthony Holden I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Barbara Hepworth I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
    Barbara Hepworth: a retrospective
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Anthony Holden I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Buck Owens I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Philip Roth I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • George W. Bush I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Albert Einstein I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Agatha Christie I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
    An Autobiography (1977)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Queen Victoria I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.
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  • Bertrand Russell I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
    Collection 1: , Brighthouse
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Jimmy Carter I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Ang Lee I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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