A Quote by John Gielgud

I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled.

John Gielgud

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John Gielgud
English - Actor
April 14, 1904 - May 21, 2000

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Stan Laurel

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Theodor Herzl

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

Rebecca Solnit

I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life.

J.A. Redmerski

I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'

Toby Jones

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Steven Brust

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

Galt Niederhoffer

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

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