Derek Jacobi Quotes
I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.
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Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?
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Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
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I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.
