P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
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'Well now,' he said, 'was I as good as you were when you were me?'
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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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To waft a feather or to drown a fly.
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If I loved you, well that's my fault
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
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I think I had a lot of fear, even when I was really young, that I was going to be seen as something that I didn't want to be. I didn't really know how to be myself well enough to be comfortable being someone else. Now, as an adult, I have a grounded enough awareness of who I am as a human being and what I'm comfortable exploring and what I'm not interested in exploring.
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A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
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While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
