Charles Laughton quotes
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“They cant censor the gleam in my eye.”
-- Charles LaughtonSource : 1934 Of his role of Mr Barrett in The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
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“Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.”
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“I have a face like the behind of an elephant.”
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“Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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“A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.”
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan
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“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.”
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Source : Howard Pyle (2015). “The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.163, Booklassic
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“As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.”
Source : Torquato Tasso (1802). “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, p.224
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