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 an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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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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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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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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People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.
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I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.
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In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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That sounds really simplistic, but if I'm in an enclosed space, or my apartment, and I live very close to a park - there's something about being outside and being near things that are green.
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Off to Azerbaijan!
