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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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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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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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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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 know what poverty is.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
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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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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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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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Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.
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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.
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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
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I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' makes people immediately discount it. And just like with books that get written for adults, there is plenty of young adult literature that is bad. But there is also plenty of young adult literature that is brilliant.
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Literature is the new foreplay.
