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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The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.
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As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
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You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.
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Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
