Frederic Raphael Quotes
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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My mum will always come and see my shows if she can, and if she can't, she'll text or email just before wishing me a great show and telling me how much she loves me. She still gives tonnes of positive reinforcement and love. It's really remarkable what that does for a child, and it's really remarkable what that does for me as an adult.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.
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My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry, which led to many consumers becoming trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.
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When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.
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The fundamental problem for the teaching profession is how undervalued it is and how underpaid teachers are.
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I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference.
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