Arthur Smith Quotes

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

Arthur Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 27, 1954

Topics

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I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

Jo Brand

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I became a children's author by accident.

Jerry Spinelli

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I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

Michael Bergin

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I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Robert Carlyle

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I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like.

Ron Paul

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It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.

Rudolf Steiner

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In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Michael Schumacher

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I love the arts.

Columba Bush

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Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

Bob Seger

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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

William S. Burroughs

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You only expect something from somebody you have confidence can deliver.

Piyush Goyal

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The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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