Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
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Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
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I think that the first film I saw in the theater was 'The AristoCats.' I was like, 'Oh my God, this is brilliant!' That's when I knew I wanted to work in cinema. I was four or five.
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I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.
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Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
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They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.
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Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
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Whatever else he was during his life, he was never dull, and the world forgives almost anything but stupidity.
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I was never able to praybut let me inscribe my namein the book of waves.
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It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when he denies himself and, because the world precisely for this shuts itself up to him, he must as one thrust out by the world seek God's confidence. The double-danger lies precisely in meeting opposition there where he had expected to find support, and he has to turn about twice; whereas the merely human self-resignation turns once.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'
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I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
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Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
