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• I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that’s how I got my agent. Some people said ‘ooh it’s old hat’ and ‘too risky’. Some people think she’s all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.

  Thomas Howes

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  Tags in Expense, Aspect

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  Gary Hamel

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  Tags in Expense, Investment

• I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It’s not about a production number, it’s about a meaningful moment between two people that’s witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

  Jane Seymour

  Topics in Wedding

  Tags in Expense, Witnessed

• Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

  Frederic Bastiat

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  Tags in Expense, Forget

• The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

  Frederic Bastiat

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  Tags in Expense, Great

• Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

  Frances O'Grady

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  Tags in Expense, System, Convinced

• The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

  Townsend Harris

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  Tags in Time, Expense

• I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

  Dalton McGuinty

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  Tags in Expense, Programs

• At the same time, I definitely want to expand my fan base but not at the expense of prostituting my music or heart.

  George Duke

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  Tags in Music, Expense, Heart

• I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

  Satish Kumar

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• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  E. M. Forster

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Expense

• Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

  Christopher Dodd

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  Tags in Safety, Expense

• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  Edmund Burke

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Expense

• No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

  Robert Walpole

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  Tags in Expense, Parliament

• I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

  Edward Gibbon

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  Tags in Self, Expense, Wishes

• Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

  Esai Morales

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  Tags in Actor, Expense

• Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

  Hannah More

  Topics in Anger, Economy

  Tags in Expense, Spirits, Saves, Hatred, Heart, Waste, Forgiveness, Cost

• A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

  Bette Davis

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  Tags in Expense, Want, Found

• My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Tags in Expense, Skating

• A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

  Quintilian

  Topics in Laughter

  Tags in Expense, Costs