Barbara Park Quotes
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I always watch the work I do.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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I really know why people need to be independent: because it's a life-saving matter.
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At the end of the day, I use music to be able to communicate to people.
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For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
