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Librettist Inspirational Quotes (7321)

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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
W. S. Gilbert
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In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!
W. S. Gilbert
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
W. S. Gilbert
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You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of complicated state of mind. The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.
W. S. Gilbert
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
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I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. Gilbert
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Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?
W. S. Gilbert
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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
W. S. Gilbert
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Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
W. S. Gilbert
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
E. M. Forster
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For me it's more fun to find an unexpected moment for a character to sing when you don't expect them to.
Stephen Sondheim
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Only bad generals need heroes.
Bertolt Brecht
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Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
James M. Barrie
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Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.
Tina Fey
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Joseph Addison
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It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.
Mel Brooks
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Do you have a dollar on you? I hate to answer questions for nothing.
Mel Brooks
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If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.
Annie Proulx
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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Lord Byron
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I ask myself whether Russia is moving in the direction of democracy. I don't believe it is! Bit by bit, Russia is slipping back into an authoritarian empire.
Vladimir Sorokin
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A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.
Tina Fey
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We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.
Amin Maalouf
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For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.
Amin Maalouf
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How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.
Amin Maalouf
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