Sylvester McCoy (Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) Quotes
I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
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I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.
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When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South and D.C. I got the travel bug as a little person and I've bounced around a lot.
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You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.
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When I saw 'Caddyshack,' I realized I couldn't act.
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It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
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I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!
