John Gay Quotes
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.
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Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.
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Today something interesting happened. I died.
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You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.
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I cannot believe you harbor any illusions about the barbarians being nature’s noblemen. I soon lost mine. They were every bit as ruthless. They were simply less efficient.
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She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.
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The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
