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.
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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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One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.
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We want everyone who comes through to feel more entrepreneurial and start companies, even if they fail.
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We're not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage.
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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Back in my younger years, I read an average of a book a day. That was when I was going to school full time and working a job after school 30 hours or more a week.
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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.
