Costa Ronin Quotes
For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
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For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.
