Penelope Wilton Quotes
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
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I was very dirty; I was a very dirty comic. There was no way I would have gotten on TV with the act I had when I first started.
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It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.
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Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.
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You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.
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I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.
