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The Gun Seller

Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also h

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“Don’t go to Casablanca expecting it to be like the film. In fact, if you’re not too busy, and your schedule allows it, don’t go to Casablanca at all.”

— Hugh Laurie, books.google.com

Tagged: casablanca, Movies, travel

“Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless.”

— Hugh Laurie, books.google.com

Tagged: Love, meaningless, Feelings

“Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.”

— Hugh Laurie, books.google.com

Tagged: Career, Job, Effort

“The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.”

— Hugh Laurie, books.google.com

Tagged: Money, Cash, finances

“Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed.…”

— Hugh Laurie, books.google.com

Tagged: Death, disaster, Move On