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“Keep interested, read books, watch television and try to keep in touch with life and what people are doing, seeing and enjoying.”

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It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through. It was…

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I am exceptionally fond of all the brave servicemen and women who have worked, and continue to work, to keep us safe and secure,…

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You never know what's going to happen en route to the airport or station and the last thing you want is to get there…

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I have always managed to combine my family life and my career, but there came a point when I had to choose between a…

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I've liked country music for as long as I can remember, especially the songs of Dolly Parton. Her lyrics are similar to mine: simple,…

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So many go into the business just to be famous, not because they are passionate about their craft.

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Seeing photographs of my dad, Bert, on the beach with a knotted handkerchief on his head to avoid getting sunburn still brings a smile…

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I did an audition for Henry Hall, a well-known dance man at the BBC, when I was about 15. I have lost the letter…

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The journey to Burma is etched in my brain, full of all sorts of intense memories.

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Ordinary British people don't on the whole find it easy to express their feelings, even to those closest to them.

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Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine pair of…

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I try not to worry too much about anything any more, and enjoy every day as it comes.

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I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

Karen Thompson Walker

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Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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