Chris Priestley Quotes
Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?' 'What harm is there?' said the giant.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.
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I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.
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I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
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Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
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I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divineLike quiet night;Lead me, O Lord, - till perfect Day shall shineThrough Peace to Light.
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Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.
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The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.
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Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that.' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.
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Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.
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Pah!' said Sam. 'What good is there in feeling happy one day if you go back to how you were the next?' 'What harm is there?' said the giant.
