Michael Parkinson Quotes
It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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Let us have peace.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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The script is just a blueprint.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
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You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.
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I like to stay home with my family. But travel is good in a way. It makes you redefine each other each time you see each other. Also, it helps that I think my wife is the hottest woman in the world.
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I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.
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That day of wrath, that dreadful day,When heaven and earth shall pass away,What power shall be the sinner's stay?How shall he meet that dreadful day?
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through its experience of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.
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It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention.
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A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
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I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.
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My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use the information therein to successfully invest in property.
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It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.
