Sylvester McCoy (Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) Quotes
'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him so much.
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I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
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A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
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Do I sound like a complete idiot when I talk about this stuff?" I asked. "It's just a little surprising how fast you've gone from zero to sixty." She did not seem enthusiastic. "Because of how slow I was in figuring out other stuff?" This was a not-so-subtle reference to the solid year of living together it took for us to hook up. I crawled over her laptop and kissed her. "You're a little manipulative, you know that?" "Uh-huh, but you? Never." "Let's make this decision later," she said.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.
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'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference... it's more scholastic.
