Dan Stevens Quotes
At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.
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I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.
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One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
