Muriel Spark Quotes

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: February 1, 1918 - April 13, 2006

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I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.

Joe Mantello

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I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.

Jen Lancaster

LiteratureKnowDigitalRuinBuying

We're both big Glen Campbell fans - it's one of the things that united us in eternal love.

Megan Mullally

LoveThingsFansBigUnitedUs

I've been incredibly lucky with the directors I've worked with.

John Hurt

LuckyBeenDirectorsWorked

When we have agencies like EPA shutting down businesses, I don't trust them at all.

Robert J. Bentley

TrustDownLikeThemEPAShutting

The second time is the one we remember, where memory begins. Putting the moments in order is only half the story. What matters is the weight of the moments as they accumulate.

Stacey D'Erasmo

TimeMemoryStoryRememberMoments

I love Cillian Murphy's character in 'Peaky Blinders' and Tom Hardy's in 'Taboo' - theses are characters that, as audience members, we follow along with and root for. But our own morality is tested throughout that journey, because these characters ride a thin line between morality and amorality.

Stana Katic

LoveCharacterJourneyRideMorality

Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.

Steve Mnuchin

TaxWillClassTaxesCutLess

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

MindEyeOnlyPreparedComprehend

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

Rodney King

NowRightBeingFilmJustHappening

That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.

Ron Cephas Jones

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I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.

Ron Davies

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