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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out. ↗

— Joan Jett

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A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing. ↗

— Norman Jewison

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Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#culture #famous #get #hard #houdini

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

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I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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Yes, I am very prolific. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

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In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend. ↗

— Richard McCabe

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I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it. ↗

— Don Johnson

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