Gerald Durrell Quotes
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
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I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
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Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.
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From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.
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I don’t care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that’s going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
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Oh, love is timid in its birth!Watching her lightest look or stir,As he but look'd and breathed with her.Gay words were passing, but he leantIn silence; yet, one quick glance sent,-His secret is no more his own,When has woman her power not known?
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They have to have an enemy. They have to create you as their enemy in order for them to continue their existence. It’s very ironic.
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They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often.
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If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.
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I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.
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The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
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In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.
