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Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.
Charlie Chaplin
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An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,
'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'.
J. Milton Hayes
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Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas, I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remembered for a very long time.
William McGonagall
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Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.
John Hamill
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If a director wants to give me a job, I sometimes ask them to screen-test me. Then they can't sort of blame me if they're not getting what they wanted later on. It's like, "You fucking hired me; you saw what you were getting."
Paul Bettany
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A line has length, but no breadth. If you could see it, it wouldn't be a line.
Dirk Bogarde
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You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
Seymour Hicks
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I made a terrible social gaffe. I went to a Ken and Barbie party dressed as Klaus Barbie.
Chris England
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I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.
Richard Griffiths
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This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.
Tony Hendra
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I don't feel like a heart-throb. I don't really know how to get used to it. It's all quite bizarre.
William Moseley
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science — to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
James Mason
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I don't believe Bond is superman, a cardboard cut out or two-dimensional. He's got to be a human being. He's got to be identifiable, and that's what I'm trying to be... It's not a spoof, it's not light, it's not jokey.
Timothy Dalton
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A Consumer's Guide to Religion—The Best Buy—Church of England. It's a jolly friendly faith. If you are one, there's no onus to make everyone else join. In fact no one need ever know.
Robert Gillespie
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This isn't science! It's more like black Magic.
Colin Clive
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In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.
Hugo Weaving
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I treat all film roles one way: very seriously," exclaims Pleasence. "I never play anything tongue-in-cheek, though at times it might appear that way. I'm a professional actor who has no particular approach to acting. I get the part, I read the script. If I decide to do it, I learn the lines. People expecting a longwinded explanation on my approach will be disappointed. I have no theory about acting. There is no method, there is no way. I just do it.
Donald Pleasence
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Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But—why did you kick me down stairs?
John Philip Kemble
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There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
Cary Elwes
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I am mystified by my heterosexual affairs — but then I am mystified by most of my relationships.
Rupert Everett
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Anyone can do well … It's all out there waiting for you to take. But first you must reach out and get it. You must work for your riches. You cannot expect it to fall into your lap.
Cary Grant
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I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new mobile phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
Ewan McGregor
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
Nathaniel Parker
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Age simply doesn't enter into it! The older the friend, the more he is valued, particularly when he shows so visibly the characteristics that we all look for in friends. You have only to look at a genuine teddy's face to see at once the loyalty, common sense, and above all, dependability behind it.
Peter Bull
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When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'
Benjamin Hart
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