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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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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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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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 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'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Roy Keane and Paul Scholes were unbelievable players. You cannot compare yourself to them. It is impossible. Scholes especially, I like him a lot, and I have a lot of respect for what he did for United.
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Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.
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Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.
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You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.
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In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
