Alan Parry Quotes
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
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Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
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It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
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Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.
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The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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Like in the Packer era, West Indies cricket at its very best has been undervalued and its players underpaid. Like Packer, Stanford is a visionary putting money where his mouth is.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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2-0 is a cricket score in Italy
