Sean Pertwee Quotes
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
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My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.
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Europe was a big surprise. The U.S. continues to perform and European sales are steadily improving, which could lead to better margins and upward EPS (earnings per share) revisions in 2006.
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Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?
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It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.
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A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
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Ted Griffin, who created 'Terriers,' is one of my dearest friends.
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Being a father is a surprise for me every day.
