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Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.
Noel Coward
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Noel Coward
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 16
Died: 1973
Died: March 26
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People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
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Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.
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Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.
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To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.
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We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?
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Never trust a man with short legs. His brains are too near his bottom.
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I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl but I heard the curtain going up.
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It's like this, dear boy, the one in front is blind and the kind one behind is pushing him.
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I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.
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How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.
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It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.
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Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.
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There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds travelling through the sky, And it's no good whining, About a silver lining, For we know from experience they won't roll by...
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Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.
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