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
  • America
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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
  • Child

• 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
  • Experience
  • Power

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• 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
  • Hollywood
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• I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

  

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

  

  Sam Walter Foss
  • Men

• Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Death
  • Blue
  • Mysterious

• 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
  • Path

• 'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)

  

  Edward VIII
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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
  • Job
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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.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • World
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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.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• At this point I feel like I could go out and accomplish anything. I'd just love to see Will Smith's face if he found out I, Z-Braff, have the number one rap album in the country. That'd show that no-talent uncle tom.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Country
  • Rap
  • Uncle

• I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

  

  Nicholas James Bates Duran Duran
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Attention

• Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. [...] You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Judging

• 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