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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Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like 'aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.' She's thinking you're from fuckin' Europe or somethin: 'OH GOD, WHERE'D YOU LEARN THAT, OHHH,' and you're going 'A, B, C, D, E, F, G'.
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I play a lot of 'Scrabble' with my brother online.
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Even a fool is wise after an event.
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I'm not shy about stating my opinion on political issues, so I can state my opinion, which is, on this one, Premier Notley's right. Because cap and trade systems have not been shown to work. And if you want to price carbon, then I would listen to the CEO of Suncor, who suggests a clean, transparent carbon tax makes a bunch more sense than a cap and trade system that just creates jobs for traders. I - I kind of agree with that.
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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.
