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I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know,… — Julian Sands
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at… — Leo Tolstoy
If someone asked you, why not help him out? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your… — Winston Churchill
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be… — C.S. Lewis
I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring… — Brad Delson
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view… — George Eliot
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I… — Thomas Jefferson
My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled. — Michael Dolan
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor? — Charles Lenox Remond
King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men… — Diodorus Siculus
Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that… — Chico Xavier
Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And… — Michael Crichton
I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it… — Richard E. Grant
There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is… — Andy Rooney
The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds,… — Lance Armstrong
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a… — Alfred Hitchcock
... I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart. — Corrie Ten Boom
The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience. — Alfred North Whitehead
Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried — Yogi Berra

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