Derek Jacobi Quotes
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
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I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I thought I'd never get a job at a university with a foreign name.
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
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When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
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In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.
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Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
