Antony Jay Quotes
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
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Who asks who out on the date? Who's supposed to pay for dinner? Who chooses where you go? Both partners should be involved in these discussions. If we want to be treated as equals, don't put yourself in a position where you set yourself up to not be equal.
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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
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Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
