Michael York Quotes
Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.
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I've directed independent film.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
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I love TV. I love the stability of it.
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Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
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… ‘I’ve only one hobby, and that is my wife.’
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I guess somewhere along the way He must have let us all out to play Turned his back, and all God's children Crept out the back door
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In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.
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Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth.
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Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the airport and starts doing your lines, it happens.
