Quotes by Robert Powell - Page 1

A boy is naturally full of humor.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Wisdom
Humor
Boys
Naturally
Boy
Full
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There is no teaching to compare with example.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Wisdom
Compare
Example
Teaching
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The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Wisdom
Sports
Boys
Scouting
Boy
Find
Develop
Sport
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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Life
Men
Every Man
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In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Educate
Scouting
Encouraged
Instructed
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When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Sound Of Music
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In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
First Time
Plentiful
Remember
Ended
Rationing
Supply
Sweets
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When you get back from a trip, make a note of what you didn't wear. This will avoid packing it unnecessarily next time.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Next Time
Packing
Avoid
Time Will Back
Note
Trip
Unnecessarily
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Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Jobs
People
Trying
Me Difficult People
Seduce
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With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Advent
Genuine
Holiday
Networking
Privacy
Twitter And Facebook
Villa
Facebook
Renting
Sites
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I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Happiness
Smile
Found
Hundred
Laughter
Ninety Nine
Does
Carry
Through
Trick
Right
Stick
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I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Bored
Life Work Always
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I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Arrogant
Glorious
Option
Further
Offered
Wonderfully
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I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Garden
Miles
Shelter
Suburbs
Vaguely
Yard
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It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Bother
Members
Paparazzi
People
Seems
World
Time World People
Picture
Increasingly
Member
Time People
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It is a pity that the words "spiritual life" were ever invented, for they have caused so much confusion. For, in truth, there is only life-everyday life-which is simply what is at every moment.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Life
Confusion
Spiritual
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I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Antarctica
Siberia
Wilderness
Bridge
List
Wish List
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With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Advent
Genuine
Holiday
Networking
Privacy
Twitter And Facebook
Villa
Wife
Facebook
Hotels
Renting
Sites
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I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Exception
Exceptional
Hard Work
Littles
Manage
Monogamy
Thinking
Unnatural
Alter
Change Work Hard Work
Change Things
Cope
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I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Daughter
Birth
Extraordinary
Son
Die
Saw
Strong Feelings
Willingly
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I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Housewife
Marrying
Occupation
Reserved
Mother Father Born
Bank
Father Born Mother
Enlist
Mechanical
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The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Tricky
Life Fun People
Confuse
Heartthrob
To Be Honest
Two People
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There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Alive
Dislike
Irritating
Reason
Simple
Cent
Human Being
Per
Ignore
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I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
Robert Powell / Film Actor
Dark
Default
Love Is
Only Time
People
Position
Relaxed
Stage
Life Love Happiness
Totally
Fairly
Frighten
Parts
Robert
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