Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
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I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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Most people care what people think about them... we all do.
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.
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You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
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'Move Bitch!'
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Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak, who lacked it, and the educated man counted in his circle, however large or small it was, as the mighty, the powerful, the imposing one: for he was an authority.
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Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.
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And this lies in the nature of things: What people are potentially is revealed in actuality by what they produce.
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I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.
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I think everybody's got a malicious side.
