Rupert Penry-Jones Quotes

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

Rupert Penry-Jones

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• I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
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• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
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• Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
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• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
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• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
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• Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Death
  • Day
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• Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Mind
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• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
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• It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Morning
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• I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

  

  Eddie Floyd
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• Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
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• You ask a faith, - they are content with faith; You ask to have, - but they reply 'IT hath.' There is no end, there need be no path.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Faith
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• We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.

  

  Jeff Bezos

• To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
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• I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

  

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• I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
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• Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

  

  Jim Bishop
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• I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

  

  George Rickey
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• Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep our thinking agile and unencumbered by traditional rules.

  

  Frans van Houten
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• It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about.

  

  Edward Burns
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• What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Children
  • May
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• To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
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• My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

  

  Rupert Penry-Jones
  • Thinking
  • Actors
  • Parent