Jilly Cooper Quotes
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
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I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
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When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
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It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.
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I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.
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It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. (Hays translation)
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My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
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Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.
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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
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The family that prays together stays together, and if they stay together they will love one another as God has loved each one of them. And works of love are always works of peace.
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Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.
