Derek Jacobi Quotes
I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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My golf game is lacking big time.
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This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.
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You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
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I go to lectures and girls are finding out about Bikini Kill or Le Tigre for the first time and are like,' This is my jam!' It still feels fresh to them.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!
