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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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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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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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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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.
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Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…
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Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.
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I've learned how to adapt to different cultures and understand all different walks of life. I've also learned that confidence is key, even if you have to fake it at times. Fake it till you make it, as they say.
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I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.
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Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.
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People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.
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When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
