Wendy Cope Quotes
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
