Howard Jacobson Quotes

The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

Howard Jacobson

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Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.

Melvyn Bragg

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I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

Mayim Bialik

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The reason why people are huge stars is nothing to do with acting. It's the magic. Charisma is a word that's used too often; it's something special, and it's what makes stars. It's luck, and basically, it's genes.

Shirley Eaton

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In cop shows, the police don't get to rag on each other and rag on their commander and rag on the person they just pulled over. That was all 'Reno' was, and I think that's all cops do 90 percent of their day.

Robert Ben Garant

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I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

Martin Scorsese

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My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

Denis Leary

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I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.

Christine Lakin

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When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.

Claire Coffee

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One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.

Chuck Zito

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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Antonio Porchia

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There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.

Ashton Kutcher

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It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.

Alfred Jarry

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