Aneurin Barnard Quotes
I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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I love recording music.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
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Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
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I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.
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There's a whole bunch of things I don't know a thing about – I just stay away from those. So, I stay within what I call my circle of competence.
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I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.
