Timothy West Quotes

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically.

Timothy West

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 20, 1934

Topics

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You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

John Collison

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I did an episode of 'Entourage.' I played Morgan - I think it was season three or season four. It was actually my third audition, and it was my first big job.

Melissa Ordway

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We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.

John Lanchester

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The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.

Robert Gottlieb

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I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

Matthew Pearl

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Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

Alvin Lee

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I was Jazzy Jeff's assistant.

Troy Carter

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It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

Mike Figgis

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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

Douglas MacArthur

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I'm probably the most successful Celtic bard of my generation, who projected this style and this image and this casketful of magical songs all around the world.

Donovan

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Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

Claire Danes

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