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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True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
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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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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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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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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.
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I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
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Literature is the new foreplay.
