Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes
Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I would love to be a role model.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.
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I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!
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I used to work the graveyard shift.
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I try not to be too realistic. It's better to be over-positive.
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It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways to cope with racism and fears around police brutality.
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I'm always nervous before starting a record because I can never sleep. I'm like, 'I have no good ideas, everyone is gonna see through me.'
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Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.
