Jonas Armstrong Quotes
All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
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For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.
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I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
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The best date would have to be at a sporting event - it will show the guy what type of girl she is.
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No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things he saw. If they thought as he did, if they saw what he did, they never mentioned it; and to have things which are precious to one eternally unmentioned makes one, he had long discovered, lonely. These August nights, for instance--quite remarkably and unusually beautiful, warm and velvety as he had never known them, ushered in each evening by the most astonishing variety of splendid sunsets--nobody had said a single word about them. They might have been February ones, for all the notice they got. Sometimes he climbed up to the top of Burdon Down towards evening, and stood staring in amazement at what looked like heaven let loose in flames over England; but always he stood alone, always there was no one but himself up there, and no one afterwards, when he descended from his heights, seemed to be aware that anything unusual had been going on.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.
