P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
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You can learn from everyone, the president or the cleaner. You need teachers in life, but they're not always school teachers or professors. You learn from ordinary people. You learn from travel, from just walking down the street.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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It's always fun to agree to be in a movie when you have no idea what it's actually going to be!
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to find a way to help the American people. In 1933, he created a relief program known as the New Deal. Two years later, he expanded the New Deal by adding the Works Progress Administration, which was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.
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I had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensation of being in close contact with what I was reading. ... But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.
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The right people don't care about a corner office - they care about the culture, if you're mission-driven, what you're going to do to make the world a better place.
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Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
