Willie Parker Quotes
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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Everyone is going to die.
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Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.
