Jonathan Pryce Quotes
I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.
