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Derek Jacobi Quotes

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: british
Birth: October 22, 1938

Topics

Character Me Think Enough Play Want

Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.

History Think Through Common Cause

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.

Love Music Me Back Feeling Listen

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Johann Georg Hamann

Think Language Misunderstanding Only

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

Good Respect Yourself Writing Story

I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.

Germany Lot Produce Artwork

Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any organized politics.

Politics Organized Suspicion English

Life is a very emotional experience.

Life Experience Life Is A Emotional

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

Group First Lead Concert Guitarist

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion.

Religion Young Kid Interested Quite

Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

Woman I Am Happy Me Plants Energy

How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.'

Truth People Me Look Back Serious

I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem.

People Me Problem Know Assume Get

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