Paddy Considine Quotes
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
