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Cyril Connolly Quotes

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: english
Birth: September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974

Topics

Thoughts Friends Person Lazy Will

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

Success Future Financial Cushion

I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.

Time Decision Together Job Problem

I got my start in the 'New York Times' because I used to read Stuart Elliot, the advertising columns. I still do. And I read him so religiously, I wanted to work for him before I died.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Work New York Advertising Start New

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Fear Power Loss Corrupt Corrupts

The nightlife in Baltimore is very mixed. Any gay people I know go to the hipster bars; they don't go to the gay bars. Start your night at the Club Charles, and then you can meet people to go other places. The Charles has been Baltimore's favourite cool hipster bar forever.

People Cool Night Start You Gay

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

Credit Easy Said Events Right Study

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

Beauty Beautiful Fun Have Fun Deep

I love con-men characters in film.

Love Film Characters I Love

The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

Job Me Performance Treat You Kind

I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment.

School Stock Market Look Punishment

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

Me Routine Comforting Opposite Thing

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

Life Best Happy Mom Gold Win

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