Aaron Ruell Quotes
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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That iPad you just bought. Do you care that it cost a few pence to manufacture? No. It's cost you several hundred pounds because somebody else was willing to pay that much for it. If they weren't... it wouldn't.
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The best part about poker is there's no down side.
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I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
