Paddy Considine Quotes
I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Women are sacred.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.
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There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.
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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
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One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
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I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.
