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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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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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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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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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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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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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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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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When I was younger, I used to try to fit in, but now I'm much more comfortable with just being myself.
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My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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Maybe you don't work for seven months a year, but you'll work again. It may be a piece of garbage, so you wear hip boots.
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Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.
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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.
