Jeff Lynne Quotes
At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got a couple of minutes. It's a very disciplined show. Our primary purpose is to show the action, and the analysis is very secondary. We have lots of people who would prefer no analysis. We have lots of people who would prefer more analysis.
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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.
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I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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Because who is more oppressed. Those that seek nothing but entitlements for themselves or those that claim for everything, social security, housing benefit, disability and pay for nothing.
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When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
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The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and know when I go back to the front line that the war will sink down, be drowned utterly in the great home-coming tide, know that it will then be past for ever, and not gnaw us continually, that it will have none but an outward power over us...Nothing stirs; listless and wretched, like a condemned man, I sit there and the past withdraws itself. And at the same time I fear to importune it too much, because I do not know what might happen then. I am a soldier, I must cling to that.
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I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.
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Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
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At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
