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 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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Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.
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As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since.
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Not to know the Bible is, in some ways, to be illiterate, to neglect the very roots of philosophy, art, architecture, literature, poetry and music.
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After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.
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Literature is the new foreplay.
