Ralph Steadman Quotes
Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
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Maybe I am a bit unusual here, but I am less stressed if I have my phone with me. Because I can spend like an hour in the morning taking care of everything instead of I sit there and wonder what I missed or wonder what's happening. So it's way less stressful for me to just answer my phone.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
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I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.
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I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.
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Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
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I really want to do Broadway.
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Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
