Howard Jacobson Quotes

If it's bathos you want - and I suspect we are all bathos junkies in the end - nothing gives it to you quite like watching sport. Unless it's playing sport.

Howard Jacobson

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EndYouWantNothingWatchingLike

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

Max Nordau

LifeGoodRespectJusticeEquality

Sony is looking at 'Descender' as a franchise of films rather than just one movie.

Jeff Lemire

LookingJust OneJustRatherThan

All the time that I'm acting with an animated character, I'm looking at a tennis ball or sticky tape or an eyeline or a man in a green suit. There's no real environment, just this electric green that's blaring into your brain.

Mia Wasikowska

CharacterTimeManBrainGreenReal

I'm just happy that Jesus Christ, um, did not let me lose my teeth when I was 20 years old. 'Cause I was wondering, like, what if you kept your baby teeth until the age of 18 or 20, and then you lose 'em? That would look pretty bad.

Metta World Peace

AgeHappyMeBabyLoseLook

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

Steve Jobs

ConnectionsBagYouSameEveryone

The more you travel, the more well-off you'll be, I think.

RJ Mitte

TravelThinkYouMoreI Think

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

Matt Apuzzo

TimeMeLongLong TimeImportant

I have an incredible relationship with dogs. I'm kind of a dog-whisperer.

Mary Ellen Mark

RelationshipKindDogsIncredible

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Lope de Vega

DreamsTodayTomorrowWillDreaming

Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.

Jason Ralph

WorkFunnyGreatFocusJobEnd

I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages.

Brian Selznick

WordsForwardStoryLovedPictures

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

Anthony Holden

GoodManMeEnoughYouSaid

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