Jack Dee Quotes
I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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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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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right.
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Sincere composers believe in God.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.
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If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
