Joseph Parry Quotes
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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As much as I miss the work, I don't miss NBC. I don't miss being there. It was just the wrong atmosphere for me.
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The living blind and seeing Dead together lieAs if in love . . . There was no more hating then,And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.
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I like diversity; I want one character to be very different from the next. I love to live with a character for a long time if I can, but I like one character to be different from the next.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
