Eddie Izzard Quotes
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
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There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
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I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.
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When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
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My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
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I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a session musician, 'How do you play jazz,' and then, 'How do you play classical?' They just do it, because if they don't do it, they don't eat.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn’t understand what real badness was.
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Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.
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There's a seven disc C.D. changer in her car, and I'm in every single slot, and you're not.
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I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me.
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Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.
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Caring for our veterans should be non-negotiable. And it definitely should not be affected by playing the same old Washington party politics game.
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There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
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Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.
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Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.
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Off to Azerbaijan!
