Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

Ray Stevenson

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• So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

  

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• I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

  

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  • Up
  • School
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• I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

  

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• U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

  

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• The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

  

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• I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

  

  Randy Travis
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• The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

  

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  • Important
  • Light
  • Space

• If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thought
  • Poverty
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• It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Words
  • Said
  • Follow

• Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.

  

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  • World
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• In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.

  

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  • Writing
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  • Star

• You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

  

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  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Time
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• The United States needs to hold China accountable for its facilitation of North Korea's illicit weapons program instead of rewarding Beijing for complacency.

  

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  • China
  • Complacency

• In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

  

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• My grandparents were from Spain, and I had a Spanish passport.

  

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• Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

  

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• The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good.

  

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• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

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  • Alone
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.

  

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• The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily and regularly infiltrated by radical groups, who use them as forums to propagate their ideas.

  

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  • Always
  • Ideas
  • Example

• I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

  

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  • Actors
  • Heard
  • Accents

• I am not someone who deserves to be dissected and analyzed like some tragic example of everything that can possibly go wrong for a professional athlete.

  

  Josh Gordon
  • Example
  • Deserves
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• I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Example
  • Pirate
  • Shoulders