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Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.


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HUGH LAURIE When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have poster...
HUGH JACKMAN The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's am...
HUGH HEFNER The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
HUGH LAURIE I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost conc...
HUGH LAURIE What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty hav...
HUGH HEFNER I do like to do TV work when it's firing on all cylinders.
HUGH DILLON I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly c...
HUGH GRANT Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.
HUGH GRANT It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in t...
HUGH LAURIE The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I al...
HUGH HEFNER There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the hu...
HUGH MACLENNAN The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
HUGH SIDEY I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, '...
HUGH LAURIE My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be somethin...
HUGH GRANT When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind an...
HUGH WHITE Don't play for safety-it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangeli...
HUGH REDWOOD What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
HUGH MULLIGAN Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Almighty God, have...
HUGH MARTIN