John Cleese Quotes
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
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I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.
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I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
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No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
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The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
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The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.
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I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.
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Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.
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Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!
