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 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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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
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A wise man had said that your Christian life is like a three-legged stool. The legs are doctrine, experience and practice, which is obedience; and you, will not stay upright unless all three are there. In recent years many Christians have not kept these three together.
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Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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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.
