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Val Guest Quotes

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

Val Guest

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: british
Birth: December 11, 1911 - May 10, 2006

Topics

Money Writing Thought Better Enough

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Andreas Capellanus

Sea Woman Gold Giving You Earth

Fate keeps on happening.

Anita Loos

Fate Happening Keeps

There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants.

Steve Alford

LeBron James Few Very James LeBron

I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Music Hate People Me Think You

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

Tom Welling

Love You Escape Movies Big Going

There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

Mary Roach

Love People Ten Years Mars Whatever

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

Mike Farrell

Hope Best You Gets

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Michel Foucault

Love Power Behavior Desire Everyday

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

Michael Lewis

Book Affection Out Beat Almost He

I don't dress to impress; I've never been that person.

Little Simz

Dress Person Never Impress Been

In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.

Claire Messud

Marriage Live People World Gay

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

Brian Bosworth

Hope Regret I Can Image University