Charles Best Quotes

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Charles Best

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You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.

John Candy

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The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

John Barton

HopeMeKindWillInsightFirst

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

John Motson

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When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.

Angus Deaton

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We cannot afford to have a president who thinks he's some sort of global community organizer standing over America on one side and our adversaries on the other. America must have a Commander in Chief. Not a global community organizer.

Liz Cheney

CommunityAmericaPresidentOver

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

Chris Christie

MomentMissedPresidentMeanUnited

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

Bruce Springsteen

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Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

Antonia Fraser

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The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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A world of derived beings, an immense, wide creation, requires an extended scale with various ranks and orders of existence.

William Godwin

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Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

Philip Reeve

MovingDoctorYoungOldAlwaysUp

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

Susanna Moore

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