James Gates Percival Quotes
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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You know, when I started I liked Big Macs and Budweiser and I still like Big Macs and Budweiser.
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Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.
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There's that rule: Don't show any of the other cameras. Why? Do you think the viewer doesn't think we filmed this?
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Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
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There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
