Paddy Considine Quotes
I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.
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There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.
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You've got to be a misanthrope in this business, a real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends, and I'll jump. If I see a stuffed shirt, I want to punch it.
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I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.
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I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.
