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  • "Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled."
    - Glenda Jackson (English actress and politician. 1936-)


  • "The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant."
    - Glenda Jackson


  • To endure the unendurable is true endurance.
    - Japanese proverb


  • "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."
    - Jerome K. Jerome (English humourist and playwright, 1859-1927)


  • Dolph to Nelson: "Oh man, you kissed a girl?
    Jimbo: "That is so gay."
    - Jimbo Jones From The Simpsons, the cartoon creation of Matt Groening.


  • "He who praises everybody, praises nobody."
    - Samuel Johnson (English poet, critic and lexicogrpher. 1709-84)


  • "It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water."
    - Franklin P. Jones


  • "It's a funny old world - a man's lucky if he gets out of it alive."
    - Paul M. Jones and Walter de Leon Spoken by W.C. Fields in the film 'You're Telling Me' (1934).


  • "The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
    - Erica Mann Jong (American novelist and poet. 1942–) writing in 'How To Save Your Own Life' (1977).


  • "The true leader is always led."
    - Carl Jung (Swiss psychiatrist. 1875–1961)


  • "Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
    (But who will guard the gaurds?)
    - Juvenal (Roman Satiric poet. 60-130 AD)




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