P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
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Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.
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I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.
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P.S. I suppose I really should be nicer to people today, considering I'll be singing in Billy Graham's choir tonight...
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Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
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The past year and a half has been really transitional for me, just personally, as well as transitioning into becoming a woman.
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A man’s body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect?
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I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my parents.
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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
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Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . .
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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My understanding from talking to a lot of people in the business has been that it used to be that a newspaper was considered a community service. Now they're being run as profit centers, and they're trying to get pretty high profit margins. As a result, investigative reporting has been seen as a problem.
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‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
