Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
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I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.
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I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.
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When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
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I don't know kid, there are so many places they could hide.
