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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It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
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This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'
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Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.
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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.
