Donald Pleasence Quotes
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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Truth is inner harmony.
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Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.
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I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!
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I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.
