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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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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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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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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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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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.
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I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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Opening for The Beatles in San Francisco at the Cow Palace was great. It was terrific fun to do. The tour itself, I must say, wasn't a whole lot of fun, artistically. It was just more kind of interesting.
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There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
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Cultivating a strong group of personal directors takes time and commitment. For me, it took more than 10 years to find a diverse group that could give me sage advice when I needed it most.
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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.
