John Cleese Quotes
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
