Clive Bell Quotes

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

Clive Bell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 16, 1881 - September 18, 1964

Topics

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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Jodie Foster

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My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.

Jess Walter

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The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

John C. Calhoun

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I'd rather be a good guest in someone's home than tell them I don't like their food or make fun of them.

Andrew Zimmern

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We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and Live!' You know it's shrunk, but at least there's some sort of youthful figure to it. Whereas, the blues scene in Europe is more like, 'Here we go again.'

Robert Palmer

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There is no real way to prepare yourself for having a child other than just getting thrown in the deep end pretty quick.

Jason Day

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A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.

Jose Mujica

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In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

Wyndham Lewis

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The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Gloria Steinem

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What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.

Gillian Flynn

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