Richard L. Evans Quotes
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
