Jilly Cooper Quotes
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
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I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.
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It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.
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It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
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By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.
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The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
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I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
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I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.
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It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
