Jilly Cooper Quotes
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.
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I was always such an incredible fan of John Woo, I just wanted to do this film with him.
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There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.
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It's a dream game for college football fans.
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We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.
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I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
