Adele Parks Quotes
We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.
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After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
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Rio in four years; I've got more inspiration in the last two, three weeks. I'm sure I'm going to get more in the Paralympics in the next coming weeks, so by the end of this season, I'm going to take a month off, and then the next four years is going to be good.
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If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
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So … uh … I'd better explain the tits. Um … didn't have those at school. Wanted to, but not in the school curriculum … even though I asked.
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I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile
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In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
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My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.
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We should judge one another. It stops us becoming animals. The pressure of failing in the eyes of society passes for some sort of morality.
