Eric Sykes Quotes
Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.
Quotes to Explore
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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If the success of the Bush presidency hinges on the outcome of the war in Iraq, that war is even more critical to the cabal that exploited 9/11 to maneuver us into it... All the neocon eggs are in the Baghdad basket.
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Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law... Just who do we think we are?
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When you take a genre that is this entrenched and become the worldwide standard for how a news program is done and you start looking at alternative ways to do it, it's a challenging process, ... You have a core audience that is used to things a certain way that you don't want to alienate, but you also want to attract a new audience. We're trying to balance those two things.
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
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The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?
Chad Hurley -
Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.
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Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.
