Sylvester McCoy (Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) Quotes
On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and my life reflected in the books I was reading.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
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Always follow your own path.
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
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If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
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There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
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We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
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I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
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We have an architect in the audience who designed one of clubhouses at one of the golf courses. It's a beautiful facility. It immediately was put to use. And Donald Trump wouldn't pay what the man needed to be paid.
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On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
