Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
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The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.
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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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Now I will have less distraction.
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I definitely know that I play the part, however big or small, in the deaths of at least two people, Chris Farley and Phil Hartmann.
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Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.
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That questionable superfluity-small beer.
