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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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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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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I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.
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I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.
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I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.
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I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
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I have the feeling that all stories travel with an understory.
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There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.
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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.
