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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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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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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I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.
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When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
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I used to be under the impression that in some kind of wanky, bullshit way, acting was like therapy: you get in and grapple with and exorcise all those demons inside of you. I don't believe that anymore. It's like a snow shaker. You shake the thing up, but it can't escape the glass. It can't get out. And it will settle until the next time you shake it up.
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Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in today’s world it’s the fuel that drags economy
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I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
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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.
