Douglas Jerrold Quotes
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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I'm from Denver, and there is really nothing acting-wise to do there except for theater. I did everything I could get my hands on until I was able to make it to L.A.
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Sometimes you design a shoe, and you think this one is a winner, but you never know when something will be such a crazy phenomenon.
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I'm excited to be a part of the new direction the Barbie brand is headed, specifically how they are celebrating diversity in the line and encouraging kids to raise their voices.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
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I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.
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What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
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Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'
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Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
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Animals that are killed for their flesh lead miserable lives. They are kept in disgusting conditions. The simplest little thing you can do not to hurt animals is just not eat them. I'm bringing my four children up vegetarian, and I know absolutely that I'm giving them the very best start in life.
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You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
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I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.
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I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.
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We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.
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The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.
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I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
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I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.
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A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
