Kevin Whately Quotes
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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You'll be free or die!
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
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You say I look goofy? OK, great. You say it's comedy? Great. Whatever anyone thought, I didn't care. Could be goony, could be sexy, could be stupid, could be cool. I didn't know, but as long as it was something, you know?
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The peasant boy, who followed the coloured track of the rainbow, hoping to find the blue and charmed flower which springs where the arch touches earth, is wiser far than one who gives youth, genius, and time to literature.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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When I checked into a hospital in Germany, after having been beaten by police in Sichuan, I was told there was bleeding in my brain and I was near fatal collapse. I was rushed into surgery. When I awoke I felt like a normal person again. But I will not feel whole until I and my fellow Chinese can live freely.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.
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'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.
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...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.
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I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.
