P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
He had that self-reproachful feeling of having been remiss which comes to Generals who wake up one morning to discover that they have carelessly allowed themselves to be outflanked.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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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.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
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I used to play Saturday night shows with different little groups. If I could get a show, I would do it. I used to do mad things - I used to go and do these shows and go on my knees and roll on the ground - when I was 15,16 years old. And my parents were extremely disapproving of it all. Because it was just not done. This was for very low-class people, remember. Rock & roll singers weren't educated people.
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I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.
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If you're in journalism, the U.S. - and New York City in particular - is an exciting place to work.
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Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
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He had that self-reproachful feeling of having been remiss which comes to Generals who wake up one morning to discover that they have carelessly allowed themselves to be outflanked.
