P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
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Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
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If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.
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No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are...
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That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.
