David Hepworth Quotes
'Unjustly Maligned' is a neat idea for a podcast. Antony Johnston invites a believer to make the case for a cultural artefact that consensus tends to deride.David Hepworth
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
Maajid Nawaz -
It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
Val Kilmer -
Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
Edgar Ramirez -
I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
Cameron Diaz -
To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
Vic Tayback
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
Irvin Kershner -
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
Karen Thompson Walker -
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
Caitlin Moran -
That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
Barry McGuire -
When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
Jack O'Brien -
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
Bear Grylls
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Certainly, Continental has taken advantage of pipe and sponsored pipeline projects where we could. As a historic shipper, we have put a lot of oil on pipe. We have over half of our oil on pipe coming out of the Bakken. We feel good about that.
Harold Hamm -
When a song wants to be written, it will be written.
Laura Marling -
I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
O. J. Simpson -
I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
Barbara Castle -
When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.
Laura Slade Wiggins -
The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
Barbara Ann Scott
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In my 20s, I used to have a lot more energy! I was this skydiving, bungee-jumping adrenaline junkie. I don't know what happened to me! Now that I'm in my early 30s, I've put all that energy into my work, although I'm still a little ridiculous. In your 30s, you're sensible enough to know better, but still stupid enough to do stupid things.
Priyanka Chopra -
There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
Baldwin Spencer -
I look for friends who make me laugh.
Christian Lacroix -
If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
Barack Obama -
'Unjustly Maligned' is a neat idea for a podcast. Antony Johnston invites a believer to make the case for a cultural artefact that consensus tends to deride.
David Hepworth