Rupert Penry-Jones Quotes

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

Rupert Penry-Jones

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• Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Carefree

• No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Water
  • Religion
  • Color

• My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Passionate

• Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Life
  • Own
  • Privacy

• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Father

• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Moments

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Responsibility

• We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Home
  • Debate
  • France

• If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Military

• Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Present

• I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Academic

• The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Eating
  • Flowers
  • Fish

• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Die
  • Waiting
  • Drinking

• From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Age
  • Young

• I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'

  

  John Sayles
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Horse

• As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

  

  John Thorn
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Reality

• Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Nice

• It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Work
  • Future
  • Nice

• The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.

  

  Walter Tevis
  • Things
  • Television
  • Strange

• Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

  

  Rupert Penry-Jones
  • Nice
  • Matter
  • Careers