Jasper Carrott Quotes
Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I am who I am.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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I owe everything to France.
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I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.
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The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.
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it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
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I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.
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And we're always excited to expose our music to new people to see if we can have longevity and a long career. It's heading that way.
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Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.
