P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
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I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.
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I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your features.
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While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
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What position didn't I play last season?
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'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.
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Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
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As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.
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You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.
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There is always a fear that i’ll be in Europe somewhere, and this little blue-eyed kid would come over to me with his mom and go, “dada, dada”.
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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
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I'll match wits with anybody. I don't care if they have the top degree in the world.
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Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence
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A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.
