Sylvester McCoy (Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
Garry Kasparov -
That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
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As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.
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Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either.
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Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
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I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
