Derek Jacobi Quotes

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

Derek Jacobi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.

Joe Klein

RespectPeopleStrongThinkYou

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what I do is somewhere on the line between speaking to you as I am now and actual song. And the things I love when I say one of those poems to myself - it's a little bit like singing, it's a little bit like speaking.

Robert Pinsky

LoveMyselfI AmMeSingingSong

A lot of acting, and I believe this, is either you can do it or you can't.

Tom Sizemore

You Can Do ItBelieveYouActingLot

With many serious challenges facing our country - pressing issues like climate change, income inequality, and education - Trump has expressed neither the inclination nor the ability to take on these problems.

Tom Steyer

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American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

Tom Wolfe

GovernmentPeopleAmericanYouTrain

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

Rob Lowe

FocusEffortWorldDoingTelevision

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

Mike Pence

PowerTimeGovernmentFreeBelieve

I chose to wear the hijab at age 16, soon after my family moved from Britain to Saudi Arabia.

Mona Eltahawy

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If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of their own, I'll still be wondering how I can be a better mother and worrying about the things I overlooked back when they lived under my roof.

Julia Glass

MotherDayBetterEnoughBackI Can

I get up at 6:17 in the morning. I've timed it perfectly.

Jonathan Brownlee

MorningUpGetPerfectly

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

Chuck Norris

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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

William Penn

WordsSpeakEndSpeechYouAlways

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