Patrick Macnee Quotes
They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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The world needs some help.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.
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My show was so personal, I made it feel like you and I were the only ones there. And I’d say: Boys and girls, come here. Uncle Jack wants to tell you something. You go get Mother or Daddy, Grandmother, Grandfather, whoever is in the house. You go get them, and you make sure they exercise with me.
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Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.
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They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
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I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
