Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
Swearing relieves the feelings-that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
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Any guy who’s played team sports has practiced a skill I call 'team sport empathy': he’s practiced focusing on anticipating the other team’s moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
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I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.
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Swearing relieves the feelings-that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.
