Sylvester McCoy (Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) Quotes
There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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'You bloody fool, you've killed the wrong man.'
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But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
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Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
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Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
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I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.
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Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.
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I really do love the theater and as you get deeper into your career, it gets harder to carve out the time to do theater.
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I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.
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I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.
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There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!
