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Roald Dahl Quotes

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990

Topics

Home Impossible Appreciate You Young

My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you.

John Edgar Wideman

Father You Intelligent More Tell He

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

Robert Pattinson

Power People Interesting Find More

Don't get me wrong: not all camo is trendy or cute. The right camo and camo shades, though... perfection.

Cute Perfection Me Wrong Right Get

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

John Schlesinger

Good Best Ideas Done Improve Take

Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.

Change Technology You Need Leads

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

Myself Trust Hands Find Inevitable

A cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold... Cows and other ruminants can do things we just can't do. They have the most highly evolved digestive organ on the planet, called the rumen. And the rumen can digest grass. It takes grass, cellulose in grass, and turns it into protein, very nutritious protein. We can't do that.

Cow Grass Out Planet Things Protein

I'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen.

Love Never Happen Charming Going

I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.

Me Performance Clothes Act Off

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

Joyce Carol Oates

Time Past Parents Think Grandmother

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Attitude Christian Lazy Passive

There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.

Work Good Good Things Looking Doing

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