P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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When I was little, I think that I wanted Superman to be my boyfriend.
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
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Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.
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New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.
