Rafe Spall Quotes
It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have in Fort Worth every year where they invite 60 of the best junior golfers in the country and even some foreign players.
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.
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My characters are not plastic.
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I try to be a better dad and husband than I do pretend rock star.
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
