Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

Ray Stevenson

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• There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • People
  • Know
  • Week

• I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Team
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• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Day
  • Now
  • Outside

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• There's no people like show people.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • People
  • Like
  • Show

• These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk... The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Universe
  • Risk

• I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She
  • Girl

• Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called 'Battered Man Syndrome'; it is called comedy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Comedy

• I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Friendships

• Nobody wanted to dance, when i had a lot of time on my hands, now i have a lot of hands on my time, and everybody wants to be a friend of mine, wo wo.

  

  Outkast
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Dance

• The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Confidence

• I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn't make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Practice

• We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • History
  • Honor

• Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

  

  James Galway

• Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Career

• In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • People
  • Friends

• There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't achieve that in boxing, you're nothing.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • Boxing

• Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Life
  • Destructive
  • Incidents

• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Age
  • Diversity

• I carried props into the subway - the latest 'Semlotext(e),' a hefty volume of the Frankfurt School - so that the employed would not get the wrong idea or, more to the point, the usual idea about me.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • School

• I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Age
  • Guy
  • Violence