Jack Dee Quotes
If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
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If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
