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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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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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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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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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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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
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'Why,' said another, 'Some there are who tell Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell The luckless Pots he marr'd in making - Pish! He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well'.
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The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.
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In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.
