Val Guest Quotes
Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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Things die. All things die.
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I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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The Army is into every business in this country. Except hairdressing.
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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
