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 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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A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.
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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.
