John Betjeman Quotes
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
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The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
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When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
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One mark of good verse is surprise.
