Jonathan Miller Quotes

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Jonathan Miller

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I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that.

Jo Brand

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I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.

Jenny Eclair

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I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

Megan Mullally

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I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

Robert Smith

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In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

Stanley Fish

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I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

Stephen Harper

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Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

Tricia Helfer

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I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

Tom Hiddleston

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When I joined the Senate in January 2011, I raised my right hand, placed my left hand on the Bible, and swore a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Defending the constitutional domain of the branch of government in which I serve is an obligation of that oath.

Ron Johnson

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I think the world is much better off without Saddam Hussein than with him.

Rudy Giuliani

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The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.

Martin Van Buren

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My real name - my real name is Jennifer Caban.

Molly Crabapple

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