Jeremy Irvine Quotes
It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most proud of. I got to know the man that I was playing and unfortunately he passed away just before the movie came out. It's one that meant a huge amount to me, and one that I'm particularly proud of.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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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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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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It was a movie [The Railway Man] that stayed with me a long time. It's still one of the things I'm most proud of. I got to know the man that I was playing and unfortunately he passed away just before the movie came out. It's one that meant a huge amount to me, and one that I'm particularly proud of.
