Sylvester McCoy (Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) Quotes
Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
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In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
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When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
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I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.
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I tend to hide behind my status of being a diva; it's easy for me to embrace that part of me and seek confidence by being a bit outrageous at times.
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I wouldn't say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven't experienced that.
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I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
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Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church.
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If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.
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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
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My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
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I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you.
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The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.
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When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.
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In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.
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I go to bed early, and normally before I do, I have a tea - it's a special tea that my doula gave me, and it takes about 25 minutes to make!
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Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.
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Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.
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I love Calvin Klein underwear. That's the only kind of underwear I wear.
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Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.
