Lemn Sissay Quotes
To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
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A favorite film? The first 'Ice Age' and the first 'Despicable Me.' They're the films that have introduced me to characters that I still feel extremely bonded with.
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'Triumph over tragedy' - how pathetic! I think people are generally freaked out that I'm multifaceted. You don't hear people saying, 'Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar - and she's blonde!'
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To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
