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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As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.
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I remember a West Coast run with Madness and another with Adam Ant, later a long run through the Midwest with Berlin and a few gigs with Eurythmics.
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A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.
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There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.