P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
Quotes to Explore
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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The fan mail I get every day is incredible. It piles through the door from not just Britain but everywhere. It is so great to have that support behind me - everyone says I am an inspiration. It is great.
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Sadly, the timing's never been right. There have been men who would have married me but I didn't feel the same, and vice versa.
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When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever, and when I've made the money, I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself.
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I have to be careful, as I don't want to offend Midlanders, but growing up, it wasn't like growing up in London. Anything you were interested in, you'd be able to find someone also interested in it. In the Midlands, nobody came out as gay at my school at all.
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'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
