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I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.


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ERIC DAHL They basically backed the truck right out of the building.
ERIC DAHL Yesterday's fire showed that nobody is immune to fire.
ERIC DAHL Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus...
ROALD DAHL Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
ROALD DAHL What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
ROALD DAHL I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?
ROALD DAHL In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. S...
ROALD DAHL Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment ...
ROALD DAHL There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to ...
ROALD DAHL I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you g...
ROALD DAHL There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.
‘Do you think that all ...
ROALD DAHL There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!"
-Harry ...
ROALD DAHL A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Loo...
ROALD DAHL All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they wou...
ROALD DAHL I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, a...
ROALD DAHL Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make s...
ROALD DAHL Did you know", Matilda said suddenly, "that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of six hundred...
ROALD DAHL From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and re...
ROALD DAHL Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.
ROALD DAHL A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW...
ROALD DAHL And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around...
ROALD DAHL I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do i...
ROALD DAHL All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
ROALD DAHL Here it is,' Nigel said.
Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.'...
ROALD DAHL I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.
ROALD DAHL Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the wh...
ROALD DAHL No-one got rich being honest, the customers have to be diddled
ROALD DAHL