"To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#Play Quotes #Mad Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'”
“There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.”

Source : "Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street". Book by William Poundstone, 2005.
“I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.”

Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.108, Grove Press
“I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.”
“Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.11, Bernard Crick
“I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio”
“Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.”
“I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.”

Source : "Yao plays down hero status", www.cnn.com. September 6, 2003.

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