Lennon Parham Quotes
We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't know that there are that many comedies that try for that.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
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The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.
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All the money I have, I got it legally.
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'
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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
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What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
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Macho does not prove mucho.
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As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
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I never call myself a singer, ever. I never will. I've always been really embarrassed about my voice. I've never been confident about it. I think it's a little bit better now than when I first started. There are people I admire who are genuinely brilliant singers and I know the difference between what they can do and what I can do.
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
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Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
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I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, but it's really beautiful when it's done well, when it's within a story. I'm very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity is not taboo.
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I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.
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Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.
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Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.
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I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.
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We always thought we wanted to do a show that you could both laugh and cry in thirty minutes, and I don't know that there are that many comedies that try for that.
