Rafe Spall Quotes
My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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Winning excuses everything.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.
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You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
