Jonathan Pryce Quotes
I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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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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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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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 feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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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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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
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The girls in 'Downton Abbey' do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you're living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it.
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Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.
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I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they're known for being beautiful, so they have to prove to everybody they have personality and they are intelligent.
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Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless.
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I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.
