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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• 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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• My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

  

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• I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.

  

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• I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!

  

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• The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

  

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• Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

  

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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.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
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  • Write
  • Impale