P. D. James Quotes
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
Quotes to Explore
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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If I'm on set and there's no other option, I get on a treadmill, but that's my most hated thing.
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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The whole intention was to act. There were rough times, but I had landed up with my driver's license and thought to myself that if I didn't make it as an actor, I would ply taxis.
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I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.
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If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
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Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
