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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In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
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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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Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
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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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I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
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God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.
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I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.
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Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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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.
