Pippa Evans Quotes
If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.
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When I first heard 'A Christmas Story, the musical,' I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don't, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie's such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces.
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Doing business with Cuba is good for America.
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
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If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.
