Jonathan Dimbleby Quotes
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.
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I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.
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My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.
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I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.
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I definitely don't ever plan on compromising, and if that means I'm rebellious, then so be it. I'm all for it.
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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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I don't love the media. I'm part of it, but you can't love a porcupine.
