P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Political correctness has become a straightjacket.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
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My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.
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I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
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Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
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There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.
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Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.
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It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
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I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.
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Iceland's Women's Day Off in 1975 saw 90% of Icelandic women take time off from their paid and unpaid work, an experience that not only showed women how much they contribute but turned Icelandic men into supporters of gender equality. I aim to achieve the same impact in the UK.
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A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.
