A. P. Herbert Quotes
The Farmer will never be happy again;He carries his heart in his boots;For either the rain is destroying his grainOr the drought is destroying his roots.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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Whenever I have too much downtime, I start to get sad.
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I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'
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As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
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Here's Your Sign (1996)
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Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'
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The Farmer will never be happy again;He carries his heart in his boots;For either the rain is destroying his grainOr the drought is destroying his roots.
