P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
Quotes to Explore
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I wanted to be a clown when I was a kid, so I love interacting and goofing around with kids.
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Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
