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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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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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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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.
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I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.
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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.
