Willie Parker Quotes
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.
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When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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Pitch tip: Speak confidently about your product, but be able to admit when you need more information, and get it to the people you're pitching quickly after the meeting.
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I would love to do a Black Widow movie. That's perfect, I would love to do that. That character is really interesting: she doesn't have any superpowers; she just has extraordinary skills, and the world that she comes from, being this ex-K.G.B. assassin, I find that really fascinating, yeah.
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None of us are good or evil, and that frustrates us because we want to see others as wearing a white hat or black hat. My hat is grey.
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If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.
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I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
