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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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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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
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I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch. It's more entertaining for me to watch these characters fresh, after one episode, instead of waiting a whole week.
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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.
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I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.
