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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I guess blustery liberal Republicans flock together.
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I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.
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In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few days earlier, though, in Moscow I had been invited to address the Red Army, as one of the first Brits to benefit from Glasnost. The subject they chose: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
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I listen to a lot of Christian music, and reading my Bible calms me down immensely.
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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.
