Jack Dee Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
