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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Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.
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What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.
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One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.
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As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.
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I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.
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As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
