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'I used to go missing a lot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'.. George Best
'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'.. Florence Nightingale
'Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.'.. H G Wells
'The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage'.. Maggie Smith
'What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.'.. Thomas More
'I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.'.. Julie Walters
'The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts'.. Henry Moore
'If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.'.. Virginia Woolf
'The trouble with orgies is that you have to spend so much time holding your stomach in'.. Sir John Mortimer
'Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.'.. Stephen Fry
'If I were to choose where I was to die it would be in the herbaceous border'.. Miriam Stoppard
'Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds'.. Alexander Graham Bell
'Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.'.. A J P Taylor
'It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.'.. J M Barrie
'Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.'.. Charles Kingsley
'I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.'.. Aneurin Bevan
'Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.'.. Thomas Hardy
'I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.'.. Mick Jagger
'Royalty is the gold teeth in a mouth full of decay'.. John Osborne
'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.'.. Eric Idle
'A poet can survive everything but a misprint.'.. Oscar Wilde
'I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.'.. John Osborne
'I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.'.. Spike Milligan
'To forget oneself is to be happy.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."'.. Somerset Maugham
'It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them'.. Agatha Christie
'Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?'.. Ridley Scott
'It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.'.. Harold Pinter
'Writing is the supreme solace.'.. Somerset Maugham
'Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.'.. William Wordsworth