Patrick Macnee Quotes
These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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I think my basic viewpoint is that everything the left and right say about each other is true. And the reason it's true is because they have so much in common.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
