Gerald Massey Quotes
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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Athol Fugard became famous as a playwright, so although 'Tsotsi' the book was written in the '60s, it was only published in the '80s. It was then optioned pretty much every year by producers. I think the problem was that holding onto its period setting made it very hard to get finance.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
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My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.
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Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.
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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use.
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Protesting against illegal activity is not piracy.
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The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.
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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
