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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The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.
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Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.
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I didn't realize this was a sad occasion. - Waiter at The Anxious Clown Restaurant
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At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.
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I try to tell a story musically in a song.
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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.
