Jack Dee Quotes
And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
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What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'
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Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
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And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.
