Adam Rayner Quotes
We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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You never see girls running after engineers.
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When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.
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I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.
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I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.
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I'd love to see more businesses take this approach - intentionally rightsizing themselves. Hit a number that feels good and say, 'Let's stick around here.'
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We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.
