Toby Stephens Quotes
Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
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A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us.
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The man you love cooking for you is good for you too.
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I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.
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Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ancestral Savannah for dangerous predators, edible berries and climable trees. That's why a sudden cat in the night can make you jump and some people when distracted, can walk right out in front of a bus. Your brain just isn't interested in those large moving chunks of metal or the static heaps of brightly colored stuff that piles up in drifts around us. Never mind all that, says your brain, it's those silent fur-covered merchants of death you've got to watch out for.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
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Trust in God, that's where the crown is at. It's not in what you get, it's what happens after that.
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Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
