Ken Dodd Quotes
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.
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I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
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It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.
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My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They've always been really great; they just want me to be happy.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.
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My dad knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby, he said, 'Is this a joke?
