James D'arcy Quotes
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I owe everything to France.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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I didn't feel self conscious 'cause my sisters and I all had thick brows, and by the time I got to the age that I could be self conscious about them, they were in style!
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When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
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Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'
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The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.
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I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
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It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.
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The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Upon graduation, I hit a wall. All of my good friends from UCLA were taking on jobs they were passionate about, and I felt left behind. It took a bit of soul searching, but in the end, I finally had the guts to pursue acting.
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When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.
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It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
