Adeel Akhtar Mum snuck me into speech and drama classes and into the National Youth Theatre and said I was going on a summer camp if Dad asked. – Adeel Akhtar Camp Quotes Classes Quotes Dad Quotes Drama Quotes Mum Quotes National Quotes Snuck Quotes Speech Quotes Summer Quotes Theatre Quotes Youth Quotes I’ll tell you who I really like – the lawyer Imran Khan. I did my dissertation on stop-and-search powers, and I put in loads of quotes from him. Years later, when I was selling insurance over in Harley Street, he rang up and asked for insurance. He told me his name, and I asked him if he was the lawyer, and he said yes. I studied law, I got an alright degree, and then I was going to go and do something called an LPC, which is a Legal Practice Course, which qualifies you as a lawyer. But I didn’t end up doing it, because I went to drama school instead.
Ruth Ozeki When I write fiction, I have the illusion of being able to control these fictional worlds and these characters, and to make them say what I want them to say. Of course, the problem is that it is an illusion, and by the end of it you realize that you’re not in control of it at all; the characters have taken over, and they’re driving the vehicle. – Ruth Ozeki
Rupert Everett Why are men talking about what clothes they’re wearing? It’s so unmanly, I think. It’s like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style. – Rupert Everett
Andre MauroisIntelligence People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel. – Andre Maurois
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