P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
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My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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Life is our dictionary.
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When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.
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Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
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In war there is no substitute for victory.
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They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.
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A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
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My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.
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At this moment, the laurel bush, which had hitherto not spoken, said 'Psst!'
