Sylvester McCoy (Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) Quotes
Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.
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I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Me, I don't need money.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot, he said. The doctors used to say, 'Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound - this is what I had to go through.
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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many jihadists have escaped.
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I struggle because I love food and sometimes I can't stop eating.
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I wasn't a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.
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When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China.
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A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
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I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.
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I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
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That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.
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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.
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Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!
