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Derek Jacobi Quotes

I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.

Derek Jacobi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Know Said Why Never Prime Cut

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

Jodie Foster

Week Three More Anything Books Than

I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something.

Jill Sobule

Time School High School Think Guitar

It was here in L.A., before 'I Kissed a Girl' and all that. She stopped me and told me she was a huge fan and that she was a singer and that one day she hoped that I would dress her. I ended up dressing her for her record release.

Jeremy Scott

Girl Day Dress Me One Day She

Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their bosses leads them to be honest brokers of information for the members they work for.

John Harwood

Work Loyalty Responsibility Honest

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

John Lasseter

Mother Teacher School High School

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity!

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Love History Great People Research

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

Tori Amos

Live Relationship Song Play Audience

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

Roald Dahl

Work Nobody Desk Go Him Own

I root for 'Spawn' and every other comic-book movie. I hope all of them are successful because, any time one fails, it makes it that much harder to get one made.

Rob Liefeld

Hope Time Successful Because Get

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.

Michel Foucault

Book Stop Beyond Never First Within

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

Jon Heder

Want Clean Tell Up Entertaining Get

I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.

Don Johnson

Doing Anything Imagine Something