"My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front."

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Source : "Philip Glenister: My family values". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

Philip Glenister

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“I worked with [Hillary Clinton] for four years very closely when she was secretary of state and I was at the CIA. I provided her - personally provided her some of the most sensitive information that the Central Intelligence Agency has.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!”
“Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds”

Source : Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada
“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.”
“I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.”
“...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.”
“Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.”

Source : Jack Bickham (1997). “The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books

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