Gary Oldman Quotes
The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'
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I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'
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Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.
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The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.
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All I can say is hold on, and prepare ...
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
