Jeremy Northam Quotes
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't like controversy.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.
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I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays.
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I'm pain in the spoken form;
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Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
