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“I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.”
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“...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.”
Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
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“If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.”
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“I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.”
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“I had my 15 minutes of being the new boy of pop, like lots of people before and after me. Overnight, everyone starts treating you differently, and perceives you differently.”
Source : "Rick Astley: The pop idol returns". The Independent, October 13, 2005.
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“Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.”
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“Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.”
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“I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.”
