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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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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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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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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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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A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
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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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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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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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I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.
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When confronted with the facts of foreign atrocities, the experience is often consigned to the realm of the unimaginable. Fiction makes the unimaginable imaginable.
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The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
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My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids' reaction to that divorce.
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A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
