Richard Parsons Quotes
I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
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I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
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What's meant to be will always find a way.
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The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited.
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When you're in the music business, every day is the same. If you work 9 to 5, you can't wait for the weekend, but in the music business, you don't know one day from the next. It's always the weekend.
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Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.
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I'm a passionate monarchist.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.
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You kind of grow up and evolve in everything you do.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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Just because you're married doesn't mean that you have to spend 24/7 together and can't have separate interests and hobbies. In a healthy relationship, you both understand - and respect - that you need time apart doing what you want to do.
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As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.
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I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together.
