Ioan Gruffudd Quotes

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

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• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
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• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
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• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

  

  Warren Spector
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• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
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• RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
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• Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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• They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

  

  Hans Eysenck
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• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
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• All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

  

  Manal al-Sharif
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• Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?

  

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• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  

  Carl Stokes
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• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  

  Harold Bloom
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• I've been training quite hard.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.

  

  Zack Greinke
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• I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.

  

  David Cobley
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• Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.

  

  Chris Gronkowski

• In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him Wally Pfister. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between Jack and Wally, and the great support of Alcon, it was not a easy little operetta.

  

  Johnny Depp
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• It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
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