Paddy Considine Quotes
I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, 'I have never made a run for me.'
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What I really wanted wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know whether or not I should've been been born.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
