Taron Egerton Quotes
I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
