Stephen Mangan (Stephen James Mangan) Quotes
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
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Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Todo juguete tiene derecho a romperse.
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Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
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Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.
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The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.
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With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.
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I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
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Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
