Jerry Lewis Quotes
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.
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There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their trust and their well-being. And you feel very protective of them, even if they're not very nice people.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
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Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
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As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.
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In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. … A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. … A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out. …
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I do have a thing for eating out; that's one of life's great middle-age pleasures.
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I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.
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I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.
