Jon Pertwee Quotes

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Jon Pertwee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 7, 1919 - May 20, 1996

Topics

SeriousActorSeemBeenGently

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

Jeremy Stoppelman

TechnologyTraditionRiseStopNew

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LifeGoodBusinessSucceedFailOur

When you don't have a nine-to-five job, and you're with somebody who gets a tremendous amount of attention, it's not that you resent it - it's that you have all that extra time to think about it.

Anjelica Huston

TimeJobThinkAttentionYouExtra

The 'Broken Destiny' series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

Jeaniene Frost

BrokenBookDestinyYearWillApart

An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

Sonia Sotomayor

FatherMotherHappinessParents

Hate bread. Too many carbs.

Steven Adams

HateBreadCarbsManyToo

I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

Ronnie Dunn

RepublicanDemocrat

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

PoliticalAmericaFindLittleThings

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

BestNightThoughtKnowTenderHis

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

Christopher McQuarrie

TogetherMindWritingBoyNeverPut

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

Allen Tate

ChanceHonorKnowMoreRareShoot

The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.

Susanna Fogel

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