Jilly Cooper Quotes
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.
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Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.
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I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.
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Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.
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I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La Tengo and Bedhead. There are other things too, like Pavement. They're a great band, with really good lyrics. But generally, I'm not overwhelmed by the state of indie-rock.
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I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
