Joel Parkinson Quotes
As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.
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If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact.
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Reruns are wonderful because it usually indicates that they had something going for them to begin with and that's why you're still looking at them. And in both my shows, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the last one, they were so well written and so good they hold up.
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Philanthropic work reminds you of everyone's common humanity, and that's really the common denominator for everyone.
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As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.
