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To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#ever #ever after #happily #i #life

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

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#asked #being #flattered #heady #i

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#back #exchange #i #i have learned #just

The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star. ↗

— Piper Laurie

#i #movie #movie star #never #star

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#great #logic #mediocre #men #most

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#altered #best #compact #confederation #consideration

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#ancestors #children #future #land #look

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#crown #did #gentlemen #honourable #i