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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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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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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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Whether you're a high school student, attend traditional college, or take night classes while working full-time, it is imperative that you are given the tools necessary to become competitive in the workforce.
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If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I'm actually a pretty shy person in real life with new people.
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Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
