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.
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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.
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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.'
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Give the peasants neither life nor 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.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.
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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.
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We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.
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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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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.
