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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Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
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What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
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My secret has always been to be true to myself.
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In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.
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I think we were promoting New Moon just as I was finishing The Runaways, and I remember going to Comic-Con with a Minor Threat T-shirt on. I was really happy and excited to be there, but I was so defensive and crazy.
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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.
