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I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.
Gayle Rankin
Something
Never
Making
Real
Making Up
Up
Wanted
Interested
Little
Create
Games
I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.
Gayle Rankin
Life
Time
Family
People
My Life
First
Sense
Humour
Spend
Everything
Spent
Point
Point Of View
Years
Blood
Scotland
Informs
View
Choose
Whole
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.
George Gillespie
Action
Contemplation
Reformation
Ends
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
George Gillespie
Life
Religion
Pride
Judgment
Others
Way
Corrupted
Hath
Them
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
George Gillespie
Man
Ignorance
Natural
Will
Understanding
Some
Without
Affections
Error
Man Lives
Which
Natural Man
Lives
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
George MacDonald
God
Shadows
Wings
Afflictions
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald
Future
Best
Seen
Duty
Preparation
Well
Done
Present
Last
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
George MacDonald
Other
Ourselves
Shall
Friends
Each
Honest
It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
George MacDonald Fraser
Creative
Trust
Judgment
Own
Other
Punctuation
Diploma
Some
Rather
Than
Get
Authors
May
Just
Dying
Urge
Act
Who
Zealous
Resist
I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.
George MacDonald Fraser
Humanity
Believe
Rather
Suppose
Cynic
It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.
Gerard Butler
Good
Soul
Warrior
Finally
Those
Dream
Would
Struggling
Part
Mostly
Makes
Always
Up
American
Romance
Wanted
Stories
Movies
Fantasy
American Movies
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Watch
9/11 was basically caused by box cutters, and that changed the world.
Gerard Butler
World
Changed
Box
Caused
Basically
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.
Gerard Butler
Myself
Mask
Singing
Those
Possible
Wearing
Horror
Could
Through
Had
Performing
Prosthetic
Audience
Stylized
Get
Closer
Human
Movement
While
Used
Expressing
Phantom
Keeping
Things
Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.
Gerard Butler
You
Mask
About
Through
Had
Masks
Soon
New
Particular
Leather
New One
Very
Get
Choosing
Many
Helps
Right
Funnily enough, when I originally went in for my screen test, that set was already built.
Gerard Butler
Enough
Built
Test
Screen
Originally
Set
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.
Gerard Butler
You
Training
Lawyer
Band
Gigs
Some
Glasgow
Over
Know
Edinburgh
Rock
Rock Band
Festivals
Did
Just
Sang
Fun
Professional
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.
Gerard Butler
First
Singing
Windows
Voice
Point
Had
Taking
Come
Shatter
Know
Singing Lessons
Surprised
Where
After
Mean
Really
Lessons
Started
Session
Third
I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Gerard Butler
Great
Director
Incredible
Musical
Andrew
About
Simon
Had
Sing
Him
Go
Lee
Five
Just
Then
Worked
Sang
Who
Film
Things
I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.
Gerard Butler
Myself
People
Had
Prove
Lot
Different
Different People
Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.
Gerard Butler
World
Cynical
Think
Purely
More
Generally
Like
Doing
Normally
Commercial
Where
Hollywood
Reasons
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
Gerard Butler
Me
Beauty
Studio
Looks
Within
Around
Got
Amazed
Ugliness
Exists
Walking
Just
Represents
Upset
Story
Just Walking
Us
Each
Illuminates
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.
Gerard Butler
Training
Law
Guitarist
Lawyer
Society
Bass
President
Secretary
Law Firm
Writer
Lead
Firm
Glasgow
Worked
University
I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.
Gerard Butler
Morning
Wound
About
Had
Putting
Hours
Because
Bed
Up
Five
Getting
Sleep
Sometimes I finish a movie, and I get used to a certain lifestyle, and when that stops, I get a bit lost for about a week. 'No one is bringing me lunch anymore - I've got to go do that myself?' I lose the main point of my focus.
Gerard Butler
Myself
Me
Sometimes
Focus
Lose
Lost
Lunch
Bit
About
Finish
Point
Week
Lifestyle
Main
No-One
Got
Go
Get
Stops
Anymore
Movie
Certain
Used
Bringing
I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.
Gerard Butler
Life
Try
Big
Breath
Guess
Air
See
More
Schedule
Take
Countryside
Course
Becomes
Fresh
Fresh Air
Private
Private Life
Lot
Golf
Golf Course
Sensitive
Whom
Actor
When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'People' magazine thought I was sexy!'
Gerard Butler
People
Thought
Tell
Sexy
Magazine
Over
Look
Lad
Grandkids
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