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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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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Globalisation is happening so fast it's confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.
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Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
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Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.
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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.
