Richard Madden Quotes
I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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When I moved in, I said, 'I don't care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.' It's become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.
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The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.
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Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
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I wanted 'Hell or High Water' to feel like a road movie and an exciting, fun film - until it's not.
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
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There's no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste.
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I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.
