Admiring Quote by Arthur Smith

“A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.”

Arthur Smith

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Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

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I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping…

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I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going…

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A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a…

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The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

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The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps…

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Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff…

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Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.

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I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

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Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

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My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

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The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its…

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The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

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Hillary Clinton was in rural America during the Iowa caucuses, but I think the nature of a campaign makes it more difficult once you…

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The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it,…

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There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

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I've grown up watching and admiring Norm. Sherie actually starred in the first off-Broadway show I ever saw in New York, which was The…

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I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street…

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