Gemma Jones Quotes
As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always been, only more so.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
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Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.
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(singing) Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!/
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In my own prejudice ... I would have of a poet ... whose worlds would not be too esoteric ... fond of talking ... capable of pity and laughter ... appreciative of women ... involved in personal relationships ... susceptible to physical impressions...
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As far as the media goes, I'm driving in the left lane at 28 miles an hour.
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Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
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I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've always been interested in music from other cultures.
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If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.
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I remember watching 'The Muppet Show' in the '70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we're all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things.
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It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
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I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.
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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always been, only more so.
