James Agate Citas

• Resolución de New Year: Tolerar a los tontos con más gusto, siempre que esto no les anime a ocupar más de mi tiempo.

  James Ágata

  New Year, Years, Great Year

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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• A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

  James Ágata

  Empleo, Trabajo, Hombres

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

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• Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

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  Long, Theatre, Experience

  James Agate (1947). “My Theatre Talks”

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• I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

  James Ágata

  Mind, Bed, Want

  1943 Journal entry, 9 Jun. Collected in Ego 6 (1944).

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• New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

  James Ágata

  New Year, Witty, Years

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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• The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

  James Ágata

  Viajes, Hogar, Hombres

  James Agate (1951). “The Later Ego: Consisting of Ego 8 and Ego 9”

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• Director de teatro: persona contratada por la dirección para ocultar que los actores no saben actuar.

  James Ágata

  Player, Theatre, Directors

  James Agate (1944). “Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate”

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• To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

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  Money, Determined, Force

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• Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

  James Ágata

  Lástima

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

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• In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

  James Ágata

  Women, Sheep, Expression

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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• This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

  James Ágata

  Women, Years, Feet

  James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”

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• Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

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  Busy, Theory, Ultras

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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• Yo... me pregunto qué hay en el aire de New York que me permite estar sentado hasta altas horas de la noche en una atmósfera que en Londres marearía a un caballo, pero que aquí simplemente despeja el cerebro.

  James Ágata

  Horse, New York, Night

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

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• The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

  James Ágata

  Sex, Long, Englishmen

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• The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

  James Ágata

  Failure, Kind, Worst

  James Agate (1949). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 7, Ego 8, Ego 9”

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• Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

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  Play, Pay

  March 10, 1933 entry in "Ego". Book by James Agate, 1935.

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• Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

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  Looks, Abnormal, Force

  October 14, 1932 entry in "Ego". Book by James Agate, 1935.

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• Todo lo que quiero es un modesto lugar en La buena lectura del Sr. X, La buena escritura de la Srta. Y y esa nueva edición de Mil mejores fragmentos de prosa reciente.

  James Ágata

  Reading, Writing, Missing

  James Agate (1942). “Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate”

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• The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an attack in force on the Maginot Line, is held to be of more importance than the event itself.

  James Ágata

  Mad, Events, World

  James Agate (1940). “Ego 4: yet more of the autobiography of James Agate”

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• My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

  James Ágata

  Mind, Bed, Made

  'Ego 6' (1944) 9 June 1943

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