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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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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We strongly oppose warning labels on cigarette packs for several reasons: first and foremost, warning labels may improperly imply that it has been scientifically established that smoking causes disease
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I want to play a villain. I want to play a romantic heroine.
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Success in distinguishing when a person is lying and when a person is telling the truth is highest when … the interviewer and interviewee come from the same cultural background and speak the same language.
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A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.
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You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.
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I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.
