Parker Stevenson Quotes
California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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We are all terminal.
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People automatically assume that because you're an actor, you're a blank canvas 24/7. But I can't wear what everyone else wears. If I went to an audition, I'd wear what the character would wear, but the moment I'm done with the audition or done filming, I go back into my high-waisteds.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.
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When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
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Wrestlers give their bodies to their work. I don't know if I like the word 'crazy' here. What I would say is there are people who have a different relationship to their bodies than most people.
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Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
