Lynne Reid Banks Quotes

The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.

Lynne Reid Banks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 31, 1929

Topics

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As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're up for a brawl, we're up for a bloody good feed, and if you've got food, well, we share what we've got, and so should you.

John Callen

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Nature moves towards balance.

Joel Salatin

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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

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I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

Amy Tan

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I only watch films in the cinema. I'm old fashioned. I'm a lost cause.

Stephen Frears

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With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.

Tom Wopat

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When I show up to act in a movie for somebody else, I just want to be nice and helpful and do what they want because I know how difficult it is to make a movie. I don't want to cause any problems. So you show up and do your job, and I think if a director understands that, you don't make a lot of demands.

Rob Reiner

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Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

Robyn Davidson

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I worked in a supermarket for a year; I worked in a finance department at a university, a pub, busking and singing. I tried to be a nanny for about three weeks.

Julia Davis

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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

Desi Arnaz

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Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jason always puts a lot of heart into what he does. He has a way of touching your emotional core in a life-affirming way. And he's a great show runner.

David Walton

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When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case.

Cornel West

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