P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.
P. G. Wodehouse
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
Washed Out
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
Candice Olson
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
Ursus Wehrli
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
E. O. Wilson
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
Samantha Harvey
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
Karen Bass
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
Van Morrison
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
Nancy Werlin
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
Hal Price
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
Sakshi Tanwar
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
Gabriel Lippmann
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I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.
Alexander Ahndoril
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Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.
Andrei Codrescu
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
J. M. Coetzee
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Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.
Jack Gleeson
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He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.
P. G. Wodehouse
