Jeremy Irons Quotes
I keep working with fairly inexperienced directors. You know, if you have a good crew, a good cameraman, you know, I know what I'm doing. If the actors know what they're doing, we can all pull together, and it works.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.
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I always felt like I'm a good one-on-one defensive player.
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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
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The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
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I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
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I'm no good at dinner parties. I feel very uneasy at them.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
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I keep working with fairly inexperienced directors. You know, if you have a good crew, a good cameraman, you know, I know what I'm doing. If the actors know what they're doing, we can all pull together, and it works.
