P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
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Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.
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'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
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Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
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We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories
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The idiot.
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Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.
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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
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His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
