Ray Fearon Quotes
I now go to my dad's grave to read scripts and learn lines. It's the most peaceful place. I go to see him, and it's fantastic.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.
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I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.
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Yoga is just good for you.
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In the last 'Batman' movie, they told me that I couldn't get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren't 'going urban.' It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?'
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I think that's so particularly exciting about this moment in time is all the new platforms that are now existing, the Netflixes and the Hulus and Amazons and so and so forth; I mean they are really doing what pay TV was doing twenty years ago. So a show like Dancing On The Edge gets to have a digital life after it's playing on Starz. I think what's exciting is how these new platforms are providing more opportunities both for first-run programming on the one hand but also for second plays for shows that have appeared first either on traditional broadcast or on cable.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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There is a place born of silence A place where the whispers of the heart arise. There is a place where voices sing your beauty A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
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Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.
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I now go to my dad's grave to read scripts and learn lines. It's the most peaceful place. I go to see him, and it's fantastic.
