Nii Parkes Quotes
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
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I won't join another band again.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.
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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
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Literature is the new foreplay.
