Rupert Penry-Jones Quotes

Our pool is outdoors, but it's heated, and I've got one of those machines that produces waves you have to swim against; like a jogging treadmill, really, only it's in water. Basically, it means you can have a small pool, swim for miles, and get nowhere.

Rupert Penry-Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 22, 1970

Topics

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My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.

John Elkann

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Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

Max Stirner

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Stendhal

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You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

Stephan Pastis

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I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

Mickey Gilley

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Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

Louis Althusser

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Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

Jason Statham

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The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Jay Griffiths

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In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

Joseph Epstein

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I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!

Deborah Bull

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My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!

Anne Baxter

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