Ted Dexter Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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I don't know what love means.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
