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Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
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Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
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Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.
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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
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When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
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When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
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When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside (1964 edition), Atlantic Monthly Press -
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
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When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.
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When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
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