Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.
Quotes to Explore
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida's contrary laws must fall.
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When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.
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People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesn't make them good people or bad people.
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Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.
