Clement Freud Quotes
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
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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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We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.
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'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.
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A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
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Am I a gangster or a murderer? Of what crime do I stand Condemned? I made the whole world weep At the beauty of my land.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
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I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
