Favourite Quotes - Page 16

• Best players I played with? Striker wise, well, I had a great record with Emile Heskey - he would be one of my favourite partnerships because we were so different and worked together so well.

  Michael Owen

  Wise, Player, Together

  Source: www.insidefutbol.com

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• One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

  Adam Hochschild

  Sports, Football, War

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When words come out of politician's mouth that are linguistically incorrect, people see it reflecting their intelligence. Sarah Palin was called out for "refudiate," which seemed to combine refute and repudiate. One favourite Bushism was "misunderestimate."

  Ben Zimmer

  People, Mouths, Politician

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• [Dean Martin] my favourite out of everyone because there is a grace that he brings. What he did seemed so effortless.

  Michael Buble

  Grace, Dean, Effortless

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Children, Book, Meals

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Family, Mother

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.459

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• I don't know if it's true that most people don't know this, but the reason that I play music is because of my favourite band of all time - AC/DC.

  Jeremy Fisher

  Play, People, Band

  Source: amusicblogyea.com

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• I'm not always the favourite to win, but I still enjoy it. The main thing is that I've planned for it and even if the result isn't great, I know I've done the best I can do. It's being true to, and believing in, yourself.

  Jenny Meadows

  Believe, Winning, Done

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• For me, my favourite actresses are like Charlotte Rampling or Gena Rowlands... people who have always stepped outside of the restraints of a certain type of woman or story. I always like those movies the best.

  Kirsten Dunst

  People, Stories, Actresses

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Vision, Theatre

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Our politics are being hijacked by a comparatively small number of people who seek to dominate the debate by screaming the loudest. They see the world as an urgent struggle between true believers and nonbelievers. They attempt to impose strict litmus tests and insist on conformity. They demonize dissent and consider all political opponents their enemies. Fear is their favourite tactic as they try to divide and conquer

  John Avlon

  Struggle, Small Numbers, People

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• My favourite movie is: "Dr Strangelove". (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).

  Charles Stross

  Past, Years, Drs

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• I certainly wasn't born with creative writing. Maybe there's a certain amount of learning and then it's up to the person. I think in the end it's your favourite books that are the best teachers. That's the way I've learned the most, by far.

  Markus Zusak

  Teacher, Book, Writing

  Source: estellabooks.blogspot.com

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• A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.

  Bill Cosby

  Cuban Cigars, Cigar, Cuban

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• When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

  Jo Brand

  Nurse, Dinner, Sometimes

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• When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club

  Robert Pires

  Memories, Thinking, Champions League

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• I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.

  Bobby Charlton

  Football, Thinking, Names

  "Paul Scholes earns plaudits from football's elite". www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.

  Peter Mayhew

  Princess, Instance, My Own

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• I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

  Cillian Murphy

  America, Film

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• I had made considerable advance ... in calculations on my favourite numerical lunar theory, when I discovered that, under the heavy pressure of unusual matters (two transits of Venus and some eclipses) I had committed a grievous error in the first stage of giving numerical value to my theory. My spirit in the work was broken, and I have never heartily proceeded with it since.

  George Biddell Airy

  Science, Moon, Two

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• I get along really well with Lars [von Trier] but definitely during our first meetings I was feeling him out and he definitely says some things that are inappropriate and then you kind of get his sense of humour. I really enjoy him. He's one of my favourite people I've met now. So, he's pretty great.

  Kirsten Dunst

  People, Feelings, Firsts

  "Melancholia - Kirsten Dunst interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

  John Lasseter

  Artist, Stories, Individual

  "Cars 2 - John Lasseter interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

  Chika Anadu

  Language, Film

  "Chika Anadu On Her Debut ‘B for Boy,’ Transitioning To Film, Telling ‘Women’s Stories,’ More". Interview with MsWOO, www.indiewire.com. October 29, 2013.

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Book, Bad Ass

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• Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

  Sydney Smith

  Courage, Ignorance, Order

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.198

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