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I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy. ↗

— Davy Jones

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I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there. ↗

— Davy Jones

#children #family #hear #i #keep

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older. ↗

— Davy Jones

#getting #getting older #got #into #older

It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way. ↗

— Davy Jones

#commerce #could #crying #different #different way

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

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Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#anything #book #close #dire #fantasy

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#does #face #find #good #happened

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#genius #knows #lucky

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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