P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
I wouldn't have said off-hand that I had a subconscious mind, but I suppose I must without knowing it, and no doubt it was there, sweating away diligently at the old stand, all the while the corporeal Wooster was getting his eight hours.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.
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There is no quick fix. At the end of the day, you still have to do the work to maintain your weight. It can't be a diet. You have to change your life.
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Painting is.. a kind of war between the moment and the pull of memory.(quote in 1959)
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
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It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.
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I wouldn't have said off-hand that I had a subconscious mind, but I suppose I must without knowing it, and no doubt it was there, sweating away diligently at the old stand, all the while the corporeal Wooster was getting his eight hours.
