Barbara Parkins Quotes
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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I like music a lot.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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I feel like I'm really lucky.
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Nobody can be like Mr. Bachchan.
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.
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I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
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Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
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I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.
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2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
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I'd very much like to be Ava Gardner. She IS sex.
