George Meredith Quotes
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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I want to have a long career.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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We've always believed in our music.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.
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What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.
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So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.
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When I read that nobody should ever feel ashamed to be alone or to be in a crowd, I realized that I often felt ashamed of both of those things.
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I met Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm not really star struck by actors, but musicians, that's when I get star struck. Chad Smith is my number one drum influence, so that was a real mind-blow. I spoke to him - proper English, thank God!
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The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
