John Barrymore Quotes
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.
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When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in 'New Girl', I thought, 'That's exactly right.' In the pilot of 'Modern Family', when Cam is holding up the baby with the 'Lion King' theme, it was very clear we had something special.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
