"I don't read a great deal of fiction,……" — Richard Attenborough
"I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics."
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Richard Attenborough
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32 Quotes by Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough has 32 quotes on this site.
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I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what…
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I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to…
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I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.
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And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the…
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I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
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I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism.
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I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
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Well, you cannot think of cinema now, and you cannot think of cinema in the UK and not place Chaplin…
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At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to…
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I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
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I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as…
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I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
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More Classics Quotes
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one of 154 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers…
— Piers Anthony
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow…
— Oscar Wilde
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
— John Stuart Mill
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Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It…
— Richard Haynes
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Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget…
— Fred Savage
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Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you
— Nas
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The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to…
— Michael York
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Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck…
— Liev Schreiber
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They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
— Douglas Gresham
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I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but…
— Arthur Cohn
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