Parker Posey Quotes
When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
Quotes to Explore
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don't explore until they're in college.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
