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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Topics

Man Desire Always Most Vulgar Very

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

Life Technology Welcome Me Anything

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.

Parents College Me I Can Go Real

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

Restaurant Table Never Been Full

I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off. I always have something going on.

Brain Doing Never Always Going Off

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Man Speech Find Socks Clean Outside

Acting is something I've done since I was in high school, but I never had a model in my life, whether it was a mentor or a parent, where I could realize that acting could actually be a career.

Life School High School My Life Done

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

Yourself Surprise Moments You Acting

Nobody knows my name. Nobody knows me at all, but they call me by the character of the last movie that I was in.

Character Me Name Nobody Call Last

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.

Father Parent You Lose Back Never

I never wanted to compete on price in my history because on price, you don't always win.

History Win You Price Never Compete

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Life Words I Am Little Things Start

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I like the idea of going to the cinema and then an Italian restaurant.

Louis Tomlinson

Restaurant Cinema Going Idea Like

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