Jilly Cooper Quotes
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.
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You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.
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Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.
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We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
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At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
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I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
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You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.
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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
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I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
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My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on the temple of the gods. To know himself, Linnæus declared to be the essential indisputable distinction of man above all other creatures. I know, indeed, in study nothing more worthy of free and thoughtful man than the study of himself. For if we look for the purpose of our existence, we cannot possibly find it outside ourselves. We are here for our own sake.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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I really enjoyed shooting in Ireland. The people are so lovely. I hope I don't offend anyone in saying this, but the nature reminded me of Americans: everyone was warm and open and easy to talk to. And Ireland is so beautiful and lusciously green.
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But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
