Jeremy Lloyd Quotes
Friends often tell me how much their grandchildren enjoy 'Are You Being Served?' It doesn't matter that they were not even born when it was broadcast, or that they belong to a very different world.
Quotes to Explore
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
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There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.
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I fought fire with oil.
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Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.
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I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
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Friends often tell me how much their grandchildren enjoy 'Are You Being Served?' It doesn't matter that they were not even born when it was broadcast, or that they belong to a very different world.
