Jeremy Lloyd Quotes
You never write a catchphrase; you never write something and say, 'This is going to be a catchphrase.' You just write the show, and then in the course of the show, somebody says something, and for some reason it gets a laugh.
Quotes to Explore
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
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Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
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Clutter is death; it leads to thrashing. Keep desk clear: focus on one thing at a time.
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Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
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Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
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You never write a catchphrase; you never write something and say, 'This is going to be a catchphrase.' You just write the show, and then in the course of the show, somebody says something, and for some reason it gets a laugh.
