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 know what poverty is.
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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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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 year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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Literature is the new foreplay.
