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Gilbert Parker Quotes

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: November 23, 1862 - September 6, 1932

Topics

Memory World Without Deeds Remorse

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

History You Nothing Become Us Aware

To me, the bones of 'Smokin' Aces' is in the Coen brothers. 'Barton Fink' and 'Raising Arizona.' Those two movies, if you look at them, that's where a lot of that comes from.

Me You Look Movies Two Bones

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

Success Myself Mind Kind Office Box

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

Situation Interaction Social Every

The difficult part of writing about someone you don't admire is that it's easy to demonize them. What you get then is a cackling villain, twirling their mustache at every dastardly deed they commit.

Writing Villain Someone Easy You

Sport is one way of keeping kids off their phones.

Way Phones Off Kids One Way Keeping

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Smile Face Worry You Person Always

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

Respect Great Together Story Reality

It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere.

Tristram Stuart

Words Balance Free Easy Say Crime

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

Education Culture Creative Class

I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.

Myself Mean Presumptuous Robber

I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.

Queen Sex Never Pretend Like Having

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