Douglas Jerrold Quotes
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.
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I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
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Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.
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We always said that directors work their whole lives to get final cut on a movie. We have that. So why would you want to run away from what every other director is sprinting toward their entire careers?
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Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
