Desmond Llewelyn Quotes

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

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• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Time
  • World
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• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Father
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  • Husband

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
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  • Listening

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
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• I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

  

  Tara Strong
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  • Different
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• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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  • Dance

• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Know

• I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

  

  Gail Simmons
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  • Mother
  • Magic

• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
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  • Game
  • Cool

• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Children
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• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  

  Otis Blackwell
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• Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.

  

  J Mascis
  • Time
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• From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

  

  Karen Hesse
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  • Good
  • Words

• The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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  • Small
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• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
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• Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Time
  • Long
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• Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• I tell the guys all the time, 'if you have a good puncher, all the way in or all the way out.' Don't stay there and box.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Time
  • Good

• Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.

  

  David Nail

• I never shy away from herbs!

  

  Darby Stanchfield

• The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.

  

  Bill Dedman
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  • House
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• My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

  

  Desmond Llewelyn
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  • Father
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