P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.
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I think and that is all that I am.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
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I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
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I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.
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I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
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In that year 1865 John Muir offered to buy from his brother … a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.
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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
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Books should have a purpose. Books should be practical in some sense.
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Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to present visual information? How do you want to take the music that we're making on stage and visualize that?'
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You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.
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To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...
