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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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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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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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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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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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
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Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
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I'm addicted to cosmetic surgery!
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To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.
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I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.
