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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.


Kenneth Williams

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JAKE T. AUSTIN It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate ...
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JACK MCDEVITT I saw his eyes, and I tried to get a jump on the ball. I was fortunate to get a hand on it.
JASON DAWSON I was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine.
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WENDELL DOWNSWELL I was a coward. I went to the war.
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KENNETH FISHER I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
KENNETH BRANAGH It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
KENNETH LONERGAN Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollyw...
KENNETH CRANHAM My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet h...
KENNETH FISHER It is almost like it was the first game of the season. It is tough when you comeback and start playi...
KENNETH THOMPSON It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
KENNETH KOCH How many ripples the FOMC statement sends across financial markets may essentially depend on whether...
KENNETH BROUX How many ripples the FOMC statement sends across financial markets may essentially depend on whether...
KENNETH BROUX Contrary to what you might assume, I didn't start with any advantages and neither did most of th...
KENNETH LANGONE 'For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.
KENNETH WONG There are some signs that in recent weeks Saddam Hussein has been concentrating more on defensive me...
KENNETH BACON Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.
KENNETH LAY We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.
KENNETH LAY You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.
KENNETH CHENAULT One of the reasons I wrote 'Airborn' was that I'd fallen in love with the great passenge...
KENNETH OPPEL Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you...
KENNETH KOCH The most glowing successes are but reflections of an inner fire.
KENNETH HILDEBRAND Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting.
KENNETH LAY Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.
KENNETH ARROW The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb fr...
KENNETH FISHER 'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in man...
KENNETH BRANAGH This is a paranoid regime. Even if the development of the Caucasus airfields … even if it weren't ...
KENNETH POLLACK What I've told everybody to do is take a deep breath and relax,
KENNETH BLACKWELL In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt complete...
KENNETH BRANAGH Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and ec...
KENNETH BAKER