P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.

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• I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.

  

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• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

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• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

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• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
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• People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

  

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• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

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• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

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• I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

  

  Mae West
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• I am a very selfish person.

  

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• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

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• I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

  

  Dan Hill
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• Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

  Wendy Hiller
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• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

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• I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.

  

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• Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

  

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• One has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

  

  Barbara Woodhouse
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• You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

  

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• You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.

  

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• I am young, yes, but what I have learned is that love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

  

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• Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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