P. D. James Quotes
I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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In my show I announce, ‘People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.’
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The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
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I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.