P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.
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Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.
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You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
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I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.
