Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes
As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
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I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.
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I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
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Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
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Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.
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I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.
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You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.
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You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself … If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them - but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.
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To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
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In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.
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I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
