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In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. ↗

— Colin Firth

#adrift #america #appealed #because #been

My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much. ↗

— Colin Firth

#come #easily #everything #fairly #i

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. ↗

— Colin Firth

#been #complicity #engaged #grandparents #grown

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#condition #constitution #covenant #dreams #every

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#away #competition #democracy #essential #i

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#i write #paid #pay #want #wanted

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#i #need #novels #road #stability

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#formless #isolated #law #mass

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#championship #country #football #had #i

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#glaring #injustice #prejudice #see #who