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Jonathan Stroud Quotes

I had a big fight in my first week in secondary school. There was a kid in the year above who was nasty to me, and we ended up having a scrap. I can remember thinking that there was going to be some serious bloodshed if we didn't stop, so I made a decision to walk away. It was a difficult thing to do, but the most sensible.

Jonathan Stroud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 27, 1970

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Decision Walk Fight School Me Year

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Love Fear Darkness Death Pain Know

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

Hollywood Square Center Squares

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

Myself People Why Pleasure Give Get

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

Appreciate You Television Know Limit

No one can ban me or stop me from acting.

Me Acting Stop Ban

To be in a show like 'Miranda' that captures everyone's imagination is amazing, but it's hard when people can't see beyond that. I started travelling to North America because 'Miranda' was so popular in the U.K.; I always knew I wanted to challenge myself and not go for the obvious roles.

Myself Challenge Imagination People

I long for the day when there are things I feel strongly about politically.

Day Feel Long Things I Feel About

The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

Perseverance Business Passion Path

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Funny Age Value Me Green Year

If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow.

Home Future Technology Today Day

To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.

Wish Newspaper Sight See Hiding Our

When we started training with WWE, coaches were impressed and asked if we had had boxing training. I said no, it was all soccer. As a defender, I had to learn to stay on my feet, track backwards, and I feel all the movement I do in the ring was helped by my soccer background.

Training Feet Feel Learn Soccer

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