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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I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.
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Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"
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Advertising is the life blood of the digital economy.
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I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.
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In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
