P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
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One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.
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When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
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Actually my ideal piece of sculpture is a road.
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We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.
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Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.
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We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
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You know, if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn't you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!
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My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
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To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
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We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.
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Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.
