Johnny Vegas Quotes
I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
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I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.
