Rory Charles Graham (Rag'n'Bone Man) Quotes
The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can't sleep. I've been trying these meditation tapes - there are a couple on Spotify - and they're meant to calm you. But they don't seem to work.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.
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What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols. They were quite literally created in order to capture enslaved Africans.
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“Are you really left-handed?” Mr. Marshall asked. “No. I’ve just been pretending to use my left hand my entire life because I enjoy never being able to work scissors properly.
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We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.
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Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.
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The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can't sleep. I've been trying these meditation tapes - there are a couple on Spotify - and they're meant to calm you. But they don't seem to work.
