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Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. ”
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. ”
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. ”
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. ”
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ”
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. ”
I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn't stimulating in the same way. I loved being at Bristol, but I missed the thrill of being on set. ”
I hate going into the audition room. I find it the most nerve-wracking, inhumane experience, and I think it's such an inhospitable environment to give an honest account of the character and, I guess, your ability. ”
I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring. ”
I come from this bubble in life - I come from a great family and went to a nice school, and I have friends, and life is pretty rosy. ”