Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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I've got a clear line between work and real life.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.
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It's not every day you get to do what you love and have a major story behind it.
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I have no way of knowing that your story is not true - but you have no way of knowing that my story isn't true. So I will choose the one that I love. I will close the one that, if it's true, makes this reality one worth living in. I'll act as if the life I hope for is real life, and the life that disgusts me - your life, your view of life - is the lie.
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It's our moral obligation, as well as, I believe, it is the government's obligation to take care of its people.
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My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
