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"Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow."
"Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims."
"I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story."
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
"People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate."
"After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others."
"Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?"
"I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle."
"Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five."
"I think my goal is not even with celebrities. I love celebrities, but my goal is to walk down the street and just see people wearing my stuff - that is the goal!"
"Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true."
"We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems."
"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."
"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'."
"I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power."
"There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end."
"When I wanted to change the concept of what I was doing, I needed to be more public because it involved more people to collaborate. And I'm doing television now. I have to be honest, I was very afraid to do TV. I said no for 10 years."
"When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance."
"In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods."
"People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same."
