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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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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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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People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
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As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.
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John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.
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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
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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.
