25 Quotes by Robert Lacey


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    Always in life carry this motto with you: When you lose your money, you lose nothing. When you lose your health, you lose something. When you lose your character, you lose everything.

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    Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor’s craft.

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    Costello must have been the guiding genius behind the 1929 Atlantic City gathering when Al Capone came to confer with the bootleggers of the East Coast.

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    There were too many “nuts” running around – and, Meyer noted sadly, “he no longer has friends he can trust among the Italians.

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    That woman,” Bandar liked to say of the British prime minister, “was a hell of a man.

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    Orthodox Judaism does not place undue emphasis on hellfire and damnation, nor are children specially pressured to search their souls for sin. But the priorities of a cheder education were anything but material. Read, read, read. Study, study, study. These were the objectives of school – and of life itself.

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