Alan Parry Quotes
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!
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I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'
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My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo kind of guy. He's OK with it, but the loud stuff, he says I'm his little daughter.
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You can't give away points and games against someone like Murray. You're not going to make it to the top with that kind of effort.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is
