Douglas Jerrold Quotes
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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I like risky stuff.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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We like lists because we don't want to die.
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You like it when someone becomes a pop-culture icon and deserves it.
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My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.
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One can't believe impossible things.
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I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
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Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
