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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One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
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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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The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
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Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.
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I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
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Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?
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I think everybody's got a malicious side.
