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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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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My father, I spent a lot of time with him at the hospital. I was with him when he took his last breath, but I felt something coming from him into my hand and into my body.
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I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.
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Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.
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With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate parts and putting them together to form something cohesive.
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Customers are now driven by trying to optimize value.
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I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.
