P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I have a couture body.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.
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Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.
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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.
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Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!
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He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.
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A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
