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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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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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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It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
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I am the Internet guy. But the reason the 'Onion News Empire' was such an easy decision to make is I so trust that side of the fence now.
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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
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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.
