John Philpot Curran Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski
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There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.
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I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.
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I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
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A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.
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There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.
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I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?
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We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
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When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
