C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.
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Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does.
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New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.
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When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it.
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I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
