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Roger Rees Quotes

I was really serious about painting, so I could never be a Sunday painter. You can't just switch it on and off.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: welsh
Birth: May 5, 1944 - July 10, 2015

Topics

Painting You Sunday Serious Never

I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Father Leader Will Follow Bar High

I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be.

Improvement Detail Story New Living

I got interested in the Vikings, and then you realize that there isn't much to be read about them because they did not write their history. It was written by hostile witnesses, by Christian monks and so on. From what I could see and understand, I was really excited about it. I loved their culture and loved their gods.

History Culture Loved Christian You

'Blueprint 3' is made up of songs, but it's also a commentary on the idea that in order for rap to survive, we have to stretch out the drama. We have to stretch out the audience. It can't be this narrow - we have to stretch out the point of view.

Survive View Point Of View Drama Out

I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'

Love Curious People Lunch Think Ask

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

Christian Lous Lange

Feeling Meet Europe Been Deliberate

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Bret Easton Ellis

Step Writing Easy Find Acting Out

It is really awkward to see myself on screen.

Myself See Screen Awkward Really

The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere.

Day Beginning Win Think Doing Go

I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.

Paula Poundstone

Love World Talking Land Audience

Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.

Mind Game Long Meditation Neighbor

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Values Unconventional Conservatism

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