Doug Parker Quotes
We need to figure out ways around those. But those are absolutely fair things we’re asked to do and we’re certainly not complaining about them.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I don't wanna be liked just because I'm pretty.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.
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It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
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We got things done at the right time. Every time we went down, we kept our composure, got back into the lead and were able to sustain it.
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We want him out there. We want their full team out there to play, so you earn what you win.
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You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.
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Never change horses in midstream.
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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
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Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.
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I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like, it's always been that way. I still go out to shows. One thing I don't like now is this idea that all singing needs to be expressed at maximum volume with so much bullshit sentimentality - it's pervading regular pop music.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
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The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
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Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost.
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I have never insulted man or woman in my life, but if you knew what a wholesome regard I have for damn liars and rascals, they would be liable to keep out of my way.
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Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
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We need to figure out ways around those. But those are absolutely fair things we’re asked to do and we’re certainly not complaining about them.
