Adrian Edmondson Quotes
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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The press like to talk to actors. They mustn't be surprised when actors talk back to them.
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The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.
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I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.
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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.
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It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.
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Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
