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 like playmakers, man, if it's a playmaker on defense or offense, just a guy who is going to put up some points, a guy who's going to be able to change the game.
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Let's treat this country first and foremost.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, in order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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Building power plants would do more to lift people out of poverty than the Green Climate Fund ever will.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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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.
