P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.

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• Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

  

  Tariq Ali
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  • Novelists

• I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
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  • Work
  • Kid

• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Society

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
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  • School

• Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
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• Brad Pitt is amazingly talented and equally good-looking, too.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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  • Family
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• As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
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• Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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  • Daily

• We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
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  • Know
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• Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.

  

  Wagner Moura
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• I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

  

  Sadie Jones
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• I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • People
  • Bad
  • Sweet

• Whatever you are, be a good one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • You
  • Whatever

• You have to stay one level above everyone else.

  

  Jim Otto

• I always say, what is cool for me with 'The Conjuring', is it's not just another scary set piece or another scary case; it's more about what I can do with the characters of Ed and Lorraine Warren.

  

  James Wan
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• If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Relax

• I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it's mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble.

  

  Bill Clegg
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• The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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