Ralph Fiennes Quotes

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

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• I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Work
  • Important
  • High

• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
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  • Truth

• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • True
  • Want

• I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Book
  • Culture

• I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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  • Myself
  • Copy

• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
  • God
  • Want
  • Because

• I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.

  

  Yami Gautam
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  • Push

• The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.

  

  Parker Stevenson
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  • Me
  • California

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
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• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.

  

  Kate Bush
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  • Lose

• I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
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  • Russia

• We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
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• I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.

  

  Dan Brown
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• I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.

  

  Camilo Villegas
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• I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.

  

  Laura Dekker
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  • House
  • You

• I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.

  

  Malin Akerman
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  • Restaurant

• I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

  

  Eddie Campbell
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  • Think
  • March

• I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

  

  Alan Lomax
  • Music
  • Book
  • American

• Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and it was fabulous. I didn't want it to end.

  

  Ann M. Martin
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  • Finish
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• When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.

  

  Blythe Masters
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  • Pretty

• Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Character
  • Writers
  • Mediocrity

• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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  • Want
  • Saying