Jack Lemmon Quotes
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I like Michael Moore, but I think of him more as a rabble-rouser. On his TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Smarter is always the answer.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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We always go into a game to win.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.
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Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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It's the way you play that makes it. What I say is, for Christ's sake, you don't have to kill yourself to sing. Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.
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When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.
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I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.
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My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.
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Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
