#ay

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#convinced #go #i #injunction #may

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#character #comes #discuss #his #i

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#bury #century #compulsion #days #give

I was always jealous of something getting more attention. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#attention #getting #i #jealous #more

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#david lynch #everyone #hallelujah #how #how weird

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#certain #day #diabolical #die #doubt

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#competent #drawings #i #line #most

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book #day #down #dusk #get

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#came #candidate #day #did #die

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#eternal #eternal life #good #horrible #i