Donald Pleasence Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'
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A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! … Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
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I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.
