Favourite Quotes - Page 30

• When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.

  Edward Gibbon

  Pride, History, Age

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.137

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• I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.

  Aretha Franklin

  Girl, Crazy, Years

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• One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

  Christina Hendricks

  Appreciate, Pirate, Stories

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• My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse

  Thinking, Chocolate, Sound

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• Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.

  Ray Winstone

  Dream, Jobs, Fighting

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• Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that's my favourite one.

  Ray Winstone

  Eye, Tears, Indiana

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• I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Fantasy, Genre

  Phantastik-Couch.de Interview, www.phantastik-couch.de. March 2012.

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• Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.

  Nora Ephron

  Play, People, Roles

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Scuba, Planets, Things To Do

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• I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

  Morgan Freeman

  Laughter, Pain, Theatre

  "The Bucket List - Morgan Freeman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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