Penelope Wilton Quotes
In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I faced many ups and downs, like any other actor: not getting through auditions or even worse - getting shortlisted and not being selected. Most actors go through the process.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.
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Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.
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My God, he looks like he's beating a chicken.
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My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.
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In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
