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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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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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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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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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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The essence of life is in remembering God.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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My dad always used to encourage me to dress weird.
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I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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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?
