John Cleese Quotes
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
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I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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I just go out there every game and try to be the best I can be for our team.
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I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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To understand a man is really to be that man.
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Within that awful volume liesThe mystery, of mysteries!
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You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
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There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
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Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
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The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.
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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
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First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.
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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
