David Jason (David John White) Quotes
Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
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I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
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Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.
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The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.
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No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
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My dream is to tour for 50 years.
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Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career
