Ray Winstone Quotes
I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
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All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'
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A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit.
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The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.
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The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.
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I was 23 when I wrote 'Neighbors,' and I definitely look back at it now and cringe a little bit. I was trying to understand what drama was.
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I enjoy comedy and drama. A nice balance of both is great.
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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
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I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.
