Penelope Wilton Quotes

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

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• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Best

• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Nonfiction

• Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• I don't take story input from fans.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Story
  • Fans
  • Take

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Up
  • Period
  • End

• Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Feel

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Presence
  • Holidays
  • Sharing

• We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Balance
  • Ourselves
  • Optimize

• The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Up
  • World
  • Book

• It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Happy

• Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Nature

• The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Greek

• I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

  

  Penelope Wilton
  • Nice