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Noel Coward Quotes

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: english
Birth: December 16, 1899 - March 26, 1973

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Success Me Her Like Took Bosom

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

Leader Home New York Gun Attention

I think maybe the only time I think of being a woman... is being on the road and making sure my musicians are fed and they sleep. 'Are you OK? Do you need some water? Are you hungry? Can I get you a cookie?' I'm not sure all the men bandleaders do that.

Time Water Men Woman Sleep Road

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Work Sleep Think You Alive Want

I've always maintained that people that are funny and smart can do anything in film.

Funny Smart People Always Anything

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Change History People Small Remember

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

Home Me Everybody Except Speaks

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

Ability Photograph Drown Would Them

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

Day Past Self Present Dream Secret

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

Friend Time Best Wife Best Friend

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

Music People Language Where Made

In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they were unable to claim any sort of identity. Others I met found who they truly were, and they generally found it through service to others. They became teachers when there was no school, books or pencils.

Service School Identity People World

One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.

Purpose Law Law Enforcement Problems

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