Stephen Rea Quotes
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.
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The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.
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When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.
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We get hit with the 'jukebox musical' label, but book authors Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and director Des McAnuff accomplished a 50-50 split between music and drama, ... The music is very important, but the history of the group makes it a great piece of theater.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
