Philip Glenister Quotes
I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.
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As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
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I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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My pen knows what to do. I close my eyes and I see this girl who glows. A girl who radiates. When she smiles, she beams. She warms my heart. I open my eyes with a feeling of floating past all the garbage around me. I will emerge unscathed because I will not endeavor to hide myself from whatever is coming. Bring on the worst. I welcome it with open arms.
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The packaging of Led Zeppelin's IV doesn't have the name of the band, doesn't have the name of the album: It's got a guy on the cover with a load of sticks on his back. This record didn't quite get to No. 1 in the United States - it went to No. 2 - but stayed on the charts for years and years and years.
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Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.
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I didn't want to be called "X" or "Y, I just wanted to be called Bobby.
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My idea was to release four four-song EPs, just like all the old Limey shoegaze bands used to do.
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Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
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I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.
