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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

  

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• I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.

  

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• I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

  

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• The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.

  

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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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