Howard Jacobson Quotes

I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to amuse my mother's friends even at five or six with witty turns of phrase. Somehow, I just knew how to be funny.

Howard Jacobson

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How often does one get to have a 20-year hiatus of a character and then come back as an adult?

Jodie Sweetin

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Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Ann Landers

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I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

Jeff Kinney

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On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

Siobhan Davies

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I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

Tony Kushner

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Hillary Clinton cannot be the president of the United States.

Mike Pompeo

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Heaven is a very distinct place, where only God's elect will go. It's the place where the only One who deserves any glory lives and reigns.

Monica Johnson

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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

Lisa Kleypas

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When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.

Josh Groban

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People always push the boundaries, especially when the rewards are so high financially.

Bradley Wiggins

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When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

Brian Williams

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Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Allen Klein

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