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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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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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 think I'm different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.
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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
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I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.
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I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea -- We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.
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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.
