Jim Dale Quotes
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
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'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
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Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland
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Mr. Ai, we’ve seen the same events with different eyes; I wrongly thought they’d seem the same to us.
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God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.
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Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned.
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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.
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I never talk about my private life. When you're in this business it becomes so precious. I don't understand when people open up about themselves to the press.
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My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.
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You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
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There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom', only talent can keep you at the top.
