Jeremy Irons Quotes
Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it's opened up by a great director and a great company.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I can?t deny it 100 percent, but at this point, there is no information to support that (report). Obviously, our hybrid (engines) work pretty well with smaller vehicles.
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Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.
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I am delighted that Jason Gardener will be taking over from me as President of U.K. Athletics. With his competitive background in the sport as an Olympic champion coupled with his engaging personality and his experience as a board member of U.K. Athletics, he possesses all the qualities required to be a successful president.
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The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to take care of them and spend a lot of money on acute care for people who would have been kept out of hospital in the first place if they had had a lifestyle change.
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Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it's opened up by a great director and a great company.
