Donald Pleasence Quotes
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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I'm not politically correct.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I can tell you that I can always recognize a Boston song, even if it's in a noisy place. I can hear that it's Boston even before I know what song it is. If a Boston song comes on in a club or somewhere, I notice that it's Boston, and the second thing I notice is what song it is.
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I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
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I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.
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All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
