Andy Serkis Quotes

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

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• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
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• I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

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• Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
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• Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
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• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Me
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• Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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• In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
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• Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

  

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• Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
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• I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
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• I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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• Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• A ramrobot had been the first to see Mount Lookitthat. Ramrobots had been first visitors to all the settled worlds. The interstellar ramscoop robots, with an unrestricted fuel supply culled from interstellar hydrogen, could travel between stars at speeds approaching that of light.

  

  Larry Niven
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• Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.

  

  B. J. Porter
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• Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

  

  Andy Serkis