Lionel Blue Quotes
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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He who stifles free discussion, secretly doubts whether what he professes to believe is really true.
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As far as getting work, no one thought I spoke English. It was absolutely ridiculous. I'd show up at a meeting and they'd be like, 'Oh my God, you speak English! That's so cool.' They didn't really know what to do with me.
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When I decided to follow my dream, I had already discarded my life.
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I'm fairly accessible.
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
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I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
