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I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be.

I’m never going to be considered brave for playing a straight person, and nor should I be.

"Ellen Page on Freeheld and Why She Came Out: 'I Was Just Depressed'". Interview with Daniel D'addario, time.com. August 27, 2015.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

"Forbidden Knowledge : From Prometheus to Pornography" by Roger Shattuck, (p. 177), 1996.

Without music I should wish to die.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller (1722). “Poems ... Fifth edition, with several additions never before printed”, p.139

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.64

I should like to be famous and unknown.

Edgar Degas' remark to Henri Rouart, as quoted in Antoine Terrasse "Degas", 1973.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.260, University of Illinois Press

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.399, Delphi Classics

We should not accept an evil we can change.

E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.

Duff McDonald (2014). “The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey, The World's Most Controversial Management Consultancy”, p.113, Oneworld Publications

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.

Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.250, Pan Macmillan