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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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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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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I just take every day on faith.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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I want people to be like, 'Your album's just as good as Kendrick [Lamar]'s or Esperanza Spalding or Beck. I work just as hard as them.
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
