David Thewlis Quotes
You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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What you guys want, I'm for.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.
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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
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And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.
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The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
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Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.
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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
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The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.
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I've been through so much, especially coming from New Orleans where there was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I had to pick up. We had to move, make new friends, and I think my family was just strong for me as well because we had to start completely over again.
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More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
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You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.
