Ken Stott Quotes
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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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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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.
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One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
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'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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And from the point of view of art there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. That those lies are necessary to our mental selves is beyond any doubt, as it is through them that we form our aesthetic point of view of life. (Paris 1923)
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Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
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Sometimes I'm attracted to more odd girls with stronger faces and features or a softer beauty with a lot of character.
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For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.
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When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it.
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I'm singin' this borrowed tune I took from the Rolling Stones,Alone in this empty room, too wasted to write my own.
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My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'
