P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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There is no such thing as going on to something bigger and better than 'M*A*S*H' because there is nothing bigger and better. I have done the best I can do, and been in the best I could be in on television - with the best people.
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I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
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People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
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Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.
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My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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This industry isn't fair. It doesn't owe anybody a career. It's just about luck, determination, and showing up and being professional. The rest is out of your hands.
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It was the elision of the weaker element - the survival of the fittest; and some, indeed very many, mothers must lose their sons that way.
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You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.
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It's a drag not to have your own plane, man. That way, you could go where you wanna go when you wanna go.
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As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
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’You know your Shelley, Bertie!’‘Oh, am I?’
