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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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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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 have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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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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Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.
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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
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'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.
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I have trouble getting an autograph from him. He's really guarded about it, so don't take it personal.
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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.
