Ephraim Mirvis Quotes
Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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I am a very selfish person.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.
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Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.
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Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
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Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.
