Stephen Pagliuca Quotes
My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy-of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
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This evening could have been better spent almost anywhere if you wanted to find your pulse rate.
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.
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I want to win, and I know I'm supposed to win, but I think the biggest thing for me is I have to do the best job I can do but then also enjoy it.
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My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
