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Jack Dee Quotes

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.

Jack Dee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: british
Birth: September 24, 1962

Topics

People Me Think Enough Enthusiasm

For some reason, I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn't have put a word to it back then.

Joe Mantello

Think Back Early Gay Growing Reason

I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but 'The Daily Show' was like, 'Nah, it's an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.'

Jessica Williams

Work Daily Thought Year You Want

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Meghan O'Rourke

Women Talents Theory Self-Conscious

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

Ann Demeulemeester

Work Live Time Think Feeling Need

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

Stephen Cambone

Position Being Going Been Able

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Tom Robbins

Imagination People Write Up Things

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up.

Rob Machado

Sunset Best Yellow Boat Sand Skin

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

Robert Taft

Work Hard Work Effort People Create

I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'

Ruby Dee

Saying Remember Never Movement Going

I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed.

Mary Berry

Morning Shoes Night You Know Want

An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year - an economy like America's - is not likely to do well over the long haul.

Joseph Stiglitz

America Doing Year Long Economy

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Me Mom She Pretty Allowance Gives