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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.


Dan Stevens


#assume #automatically #certain #costume #dramas

The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.


Dimitra Ekmektsis


#dimitra-ekmektsis #memoir #quotes-i-love #love

For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.


D.H. Lawrence


#humanity #machines #monkeys #reflection #thought

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.


Daniel H. Pink


#compliance #control #engagement #motivation #motivational

Too embarrassed even to try as long as everyone was looking at me, I made what was probably a fairly unique request. ‘Um, I’ll have a go. But I can’t do it if you’re all looking at me. Can I go inside the wardrobe and sing from there?’ The others looked at me strangely, possibly beginning to worry about the apparent absence of any stage personality in this girl they had just recruited, but to their credit they agreed, without killing themselves laughing, and so in I went. From inside my hidey-hole I sang David Bowie’s ‘Rebel Rebel’. I emerged to a very positive response, the others all declaring that I sounded like Siouxsie Sioux – I was trying very hard to – and while I was quite pleased with myself, I wasn’t sure that I would be able to do it in front of an audience. We could hardly take the wardrobe around with us.


Tracey Thorn


#music #tracey-thorn #music

[A Bugatti Veyron is] quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created....At a stroke then, the Veyron has rendered everything I’ve ever said about any other car obsolete. It’s rewritten the rule book, moved the goalposts and in the process, given Mother Nature a bloody nose.


Jeremy Clarkson


#automobiles #bugatti #car #cars #veyron

Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly and political affairs: he is a snoop and a voyeur; he comments and classifies; his taxonomic impulse makes the novel appear to be a vast compendium, replete with burrowing wasps and bedsteads, military strategies, stereoscopes, asparagus and aeroplanes.


Adam A. Watt


#gnothi-seauton #know-thyself #knowledge #proust #art

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.


Isaac Asimov


#convention #fame #science-fiction #self-referential #science

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.


Walt Whitman


#journey #self-reliance #travel

Silence in the shell of a city, no baby crying, no car honking, no ambulance shrieking, no lovers moaning, no drunks throwing up in the alley, no lights, nothing but wind and rain and snow in its season and rust and a rattling of open doors and carcass smell. It was a possibility like a brain tumor or a scorpion bite.


Anne Roiphe


#art-and-madness #autobiographical #art