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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I really am a cockeyed optimist.
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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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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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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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My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.
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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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I've always believed that talking about something is not the same as doing something about it.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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About Hong Kong: No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum.
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I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.
