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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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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 don't have all the answers, so my goal is to make sure that the 180-some odd members of the RSC each have a seat at the table where we can talk about their vision.
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I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.
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I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.
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North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening beyond a normal state. They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before.
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
