Jeremy Irons Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I like things simple.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I love bayou life.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.
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I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
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There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.
