Joel Parkinson Quotes
You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.
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What - of all the incredible duets that I've been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still the one that I just shook in my boots just standing next to him. I loved him so much.
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Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.
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College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.
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You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.
