S. J. Perelman Quotes
I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing to say, but it was fun, and I enjoyed my friends.
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I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
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I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
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Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.
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If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
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Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
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Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.
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I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
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I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.
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What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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The human mind gets used to strangeness very quickly if it does not exhibit interesting behavior.
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I love the whole story of why something happened when it did and that’s what I put into the collections.
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
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I don't know that I ever could've imagined just how blessed my life would be.
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Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.
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You can always tell when gas is expensive. You always see street gangs doing walk-bys.
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I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.
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The moment I appeared the crowd started jeering and booing and shouting ‘faggot’ and spitting, I had hired a bodyguard and when the jeering started I turned to see where the bodyguard was, I could just see the back of his head as he was running out of the stadium.
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This appearance of the Evening was... just after a very heavy rain - more rain in the night and very - ?light wind which continued all the - day following while making – this sketch observed the Moon easing – very beautifully... in the due East over the - heavy clouds from which the late showers – had fallen.
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I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.
