Clement Freud Quotes
If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.
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I think anything you listen to is going to be different.
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We're all from China, and whoever wins, it's OK - I just try my best.
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What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
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If anyone tells me I'm fat, I say, - That's because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit.
