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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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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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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YouTube is akin to having my own network.
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I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.
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Although humans are not irrational, they often need help to make more accurate judgements and better decisions. ... They also need protection from others who deliberately exploit their weaknesses ....
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Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
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Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.
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Off to Azerbaijan!
