Penelope Wilton Quotes
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The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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There's no formula.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est
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Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.
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...You shouldn't clap, that was a lie... I like to tell lies. According to Shakira, hips don't lie. Which makes me a bundle of contradictions.
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Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
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I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
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It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
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We need to understand as a nation that you can't forever expect somebody out there, whether it's China or somebody in England, to say, 'I will always take America's debt no matter what.'
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One hot summer night in San Francisco, roughly 10 years ago, I was sitting in a crowded Pacific Heights restaurant when Alice Adams walked in with a man. She was about 60 at the time, and she was wearing a skirt that fell an inch or so above her knees and flat heels without stockings.
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I'm always trying to do things better than I've done them before, do them faster than I've done them before.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.
