Joel Parkinson Quotes
It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.
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For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.
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Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
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A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.
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My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.
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It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.
