P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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Is this the end of an old adventure, or the beginning of a new; is this the last attack upon a small state or is it to be followed by others; is this in fact a step in the direction of an attempt to dominate the world by force?
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
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A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.
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She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.
