Graham Greene Quotes

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Graham Greene

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 2, 1904 - April 3, 1991

Topics

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Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

Michael Ende

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If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.

Steve Coogan

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No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Tommy Franks

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Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

Mary Matalin

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Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Michael Leunig

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Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system.

Debra Fischer

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I like to think of 'the studio' as a laboratory where I can go in, learn tricks, apply, revise, and release. I'd figure I had about the same emotional attachment to my craft as a guy over at NASA does over... NASA stuff.

Deadmau5

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In my case, a papadaddy is a father. My paternal grandfather was called Papa by my father who was called Daddy by me.

Clyde Edgerton

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My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

Armie Hammer

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I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.

Ari Fleischer

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I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

Anton Yelchin

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