Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes
When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.
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I think there are two sides of the coin. On one hand, it can be challenging to access different parts of yourself, and you kind of have to put yourself back into reality when you're done with the job. But I think it's also really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before. I think that's something that I've been learning more recently.
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The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
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I know that’s probably not always true, but I operate on the principle that if it sounds great when you’re just playing it on the piano or guitar and singing it, then making it into a stylistic statement is just not a problem. It’s just going to be a matter of time, turning the crank and getting an arrangement out of the song.
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When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
