Jilly Cooper Quotes
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.
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You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
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Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
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The more affluent areas, by and large, are afforded these big, beautiful, spectacular buildings, and then the poorer neighborhoods are just disintegrating. And there’s this imbalance, obviously, of power and resources.
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Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves in the mirror of deep time, measured not in centuries or even in millennia, but over millions and billions of years.
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For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
