Stephen Rea Quotes
If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
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The Titanic hit the iceberg not because they could not see it coming but because they could not change direction.
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It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our principles, in the current conditions. And it feels like the thing we know to be true about working collectively - that we have better ideas together than we do individually.
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I'm not doing 'Once' to prove that I'm worldly or cultured. I just love the role.
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Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.
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If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
