Jonathan Pryce Quotes
I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
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The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
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I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.
