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• You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Knowing, Weapons

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.

  Jason Sellards

  Cutting, Cake, Kind

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

  Richard Hawley

  Song, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Beer, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.312, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are, to provide food, shelter, protection, advice and discipline, day in and day out, they can afford to be much more easy-going. The unexpected present, the extra outing, the little treat of a favourite meal prepared especially to delight the child and, above all, the time to listen to youthful outpourings, all make a grandmother a loved ally. It is hardly surprising that the bond between grandmother and grandchild is often stronger than that between parent and child.

  Miss Read

  Children, Grandmother, Discipline

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• My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.

  Clive Anderson

  Home, Garden, Thinking

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• After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.

  Eric Cantona

  Team, Wings, Heaven

  "Cantona tribute to Best". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. November 29, 2005.

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• Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for transcription their favourite verse in one poem and another.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Book, Exercise

  "Home Education".

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• Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!

  Malcolm Arnold

  Symphony, Special, Experts

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• The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you 'almost' won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one 'loser.' No one lost ahead of you.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Congratulations, Winning, Thinking

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• Certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Roles, Forgotten

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.206, Modern Library

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• The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Writing, Pieces, Form

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• I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Working Together, Close Friends

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

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• You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."

  Mary McCarthy

  Chaucer, Knows, Quotations

  "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt". Short story by ary McCarthy, first published in "Partisan Review", 1941.

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• I don't have one favourite band. I like everything.

  Sidney Crosby

  Band

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• I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

  Christopher Guest

  America, Comedian, Peter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"

  Ricky Gervais

  Sick, People, Vision

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

  Prince Philip

  School, Unnecessary, Avoiding

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• The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will.

  Irene Thomas

  Reading, Sound, Instruments

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• The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

  Teddy Thompson

  Song, Subjects

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• The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

  Teresa Palmer

  Sweet, Passion, Writing

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• My favourite food at the moment is Pasta, “with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I meanwhen you get the thin slices.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Pasta, Sides, Moments

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• As you've witnessed, Catwoman is the ultimate diva. From the pages of comic books to both small and big screens, Catwoman continues to evolve and mature like a true cat. Catwoman, is a unique breed, never taking the same form twice. But whatever form she takes, she'll always reign supreme. A dog maybe man's best friend, but a cat is everyone's favourite feline fatale.

  Eartha Kitt

  Dog, Book, Cat

  "The Many Faces of Catwoman". Documentary, January 18, 2005.

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• Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him

  Jennifer Connelly

  Dark, Water, Motorcycle

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• Many celebrations are set to take place in Swarnim Gujarat. However, if one asks me, "As the Chief Minister, which is your favourite programme?" Then friends, I would like to say that 'Vanche Gujarat' is the closest to my heart.

  Narendra Modi

  Heart, Empowerment, India

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