Barry Venison Quotes
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I get bored easily.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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I started composing when I was around 13, and back then, people used to say that I needed to be a composer or a performer, but I can't be good at both of them. I could never understand why anyone would say that. Jellyroll did both, Bessie Smith did both, and so did I.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
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My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.
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I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.
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I offer a proven track record in the big leagues that can hit left-handers or right-handers.
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I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.
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I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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I was so honored to be on 'Entourage' for eight years but I want to show people that I can do other things.
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Like so many of the current Chelsea team, Zola is unique.
