Rupert Friend Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.
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I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.
