Douglas Jerrold Quotes
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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How long a time lies in one little word?
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Dialect was my biggest fear. So, I spent a long time working with dialect coaches just trying to get American down. I think it's very important and very easy to misinterpret.
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I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
