Parker Posey Quotes
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into the final frontier accessible to us all.... Indeed, there are strange new worlds to explore -- to seek out new life and start new civilizations. It is time to boldly go where no man -- or woman -- has gone before. Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and his beloved Mr. Spock, the bar has been set high for us to continue humanity's quest to probe outward in the universe.
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Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go.
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We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
