#ge

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#day #gods #more #once #once more

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#concerned #i #i am #innovation #longer

I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager. ↗

— Robert Laurent

#bit #differently #felt #gone #got

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters. ↗

— Dino De Laurentiis

#cannot #characters #film #get #hours

I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#believe #cease #corrosive #device #encourages

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#doing #drama #fox #i #imagine

There's a bigger universe at hand. ↗

— Marc Webb

#hand #universe

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#bad #because #complaining #confident #fail

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#avoid #been #children #delight #doing

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#again #agent #called #dropped #fireplace