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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I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.
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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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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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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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I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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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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The magic of the cave image lies in its being, not in its being seen. The symbolic does not refer. It is. (p. 350)
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The game is so quick that you can't blame things. We didn't score a run in the ninth. It's not a big deal.
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In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.
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I was very fortunate to be raised with an 'if not you, then who?' mentality, and I count my blessings every day to have the support of my family and especially my wife. She's got a front-row seat on the roller coaster.
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But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
