Clement Freud Quotes
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a Buddhist.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I just love dancing.
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Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'
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After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.
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I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
