Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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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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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.
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The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.
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Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
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The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.
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You have to go where the good writing is.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.
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With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.
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Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.
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No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
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It is not so much that I am a blue-blooded oligarch: I just don't feel like an oligarch.
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Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.
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The sharp employ the sharp.
