Derek Jacobi Quotes
There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
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Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,...
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There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.
