Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
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I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.
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I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.
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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
