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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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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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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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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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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I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.
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I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it's all right. I don't think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn't mean he's going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren't gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.
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The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.
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I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.
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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.
