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Aneurin Barnard Quotes

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

Aneurin Barnard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: welsh
Birth: May 8, 1987

Topics

Possible Bone Things Close Like

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.

Best Focus Creativity Wise Choice

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Failure Truth Politics Bad Risk Out

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Power Power Corrupts Expectation

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

Mercedes McCambridge

Trouble More Always Than Truths Had

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

Good People Society Others Own Fail

Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.

Stars Grateful People Me Feel Lucky

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

Vision Style New York Cool Weird

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

Dreams Eyes Prayer Night Magic You

It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America's most vital secrets are in the hands of our adversaries because Secretary Clinton intentionally avoided using official government communication systems.

Communication Government America Most

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

Patience Cooking Together Vegetables

I can make a song up about anything: garbage, the weather, things in the news.

Marvin Hamlisch

Weather Song I Can News Garbage Up

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

Girl Character Personality Think Shy

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