Derek Jacobi Quotes

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Derek Jacobi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Every movie that I've had to really knock down the door for has been an enormous success for me. Not just like a financial success but a real personal success.

Jodie Foster

SuccessMeDoorFinancialDownReal

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.

Jesse Williams

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A lot of those good-looking girl parts aren't very fun.

Jennifer Coolidge

GirlFunGood-LookingThoseVery

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.

Maurice Flanagan

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I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

Tommy Lee

WhyNeverHotSingChicks

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Mike Nichols

LoveJobKeyPlaceOpenSafe

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

Michael McCaul

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An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

Lisa Randall

ProgressCreativePeopleQuestions

In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them.

Judy Blume

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If those of us who care about making our own decisions about what to read and what to think don't take a stand, others will decide for us.

Judy Blume

ThinkCareStandDecisionsWillOwn

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