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Brendan Fay

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
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ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
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ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
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WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA

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FAY WRAY We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing,...
FAY WELDON Men are irrelevant.
FAY WELDON No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.
FAY WELDON I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
FAY WELDON People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
FAY WELDON Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
FAY WELDON The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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FAY VINCENT It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
FAY VINCENT Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crow...
FAY VINCENT I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
FAY VINCENT The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little club...
FAY VINCENT This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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FAY GODWIN I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities i...
FAY GODWIN I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
FAY GODWIN I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love...
FAY GODWIN I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from eac...
FAY GODWIN You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
FAY GODWIN The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
FAY GODWIN I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
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FAY WRAY The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one t...
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FAY WRAY For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains tha...
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FAY WRAY They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers a...
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BRENDAN GILL The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
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BRENDAN FRANCIS To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
BRENDAN BEHAN If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
BRENDAN FRANCIS A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks w...
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BRENDAN BEHAN No man can discover his own talents.
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BRENDAN FRANCIS He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
BRENDAN BEHAN If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a m...
BRENDAN FRANCIS The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth dat...
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BRENDAN FRASER You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down...
BRENDAN COYLE I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could sho...
BRENDAN BEHAN The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
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BRENDAN BEHAN I am a daylight atheist.
BRENDAN BEHAN What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
BRENDAN BEHAN One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
BRENDAN BEHAN All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
BRENDAN BEHAN I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
BRENDAN BEHAN The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of m...
BRENDAN BEHAN Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
BRENDAN BEHAN No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
BRENDAN BEHAN If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
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BRENDAN BEHAN A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
BRENDAN BEHAN If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
BRENDAN BEHAN Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
BRENDAN BEHAN There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
BRENDAN BEHAN Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day...
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BRENDAN BEHAN Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
BRENDAN BEHAN If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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BRENDAN BEHAN I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in t...
BRENDAN FRASER If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.
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BRENDAN IRIBE Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my scho...
BRENDAN IRIBE A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks w...
BRENDAN BEHAN There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ours...
BRENDAN MYERS It just felt like the right thing to do to give back to a state school and public school. I'm a ...
BRENDAN IRIBE Most big companies work in stealth until they think they have a consumer product ready to go.
BRENDAN IRIBE Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both forei...
BRENDAN MYERS I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an inte...
BRENDAN FRASER