Top 73 Quotes About Rayner
#1. His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.
Hugh Laurie
#2. To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail.
-Rayner Unwin
Jeff Shanley
#3. That the printer had quietly reset The Fellowship of the Ring, and that copies had been issued without proof having been read by the author, never became known to Tolkien; while his publisher, Rayner Unwin, learned of it only thirty-eight years after the fact.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#4. Rayner can't go into politics, she's got more shit on her than Elton John's cock!
Garth Ennis
#5. Give her a weak man and she'll inadvertently run rings around him. He simply wasn't strong enough for her.
Sarah Rayner
#7. I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.
Adam Rayner
#8. As Lea Thompson says in 'Howard the Duck', everything happens for a purpose.
Manny Rayner
#9. She has had a couple of lovers before, but honest to God, no one has ever felt as good, as perfect a fit, as him.
Sarah Rayner
#10. The Doctor gave a modest shrug. Well, I must admit that I made heads turn wherever I go. It's a burden that I just have to live with.
Jacqueline Rayner
#11. The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.
Jay Rayner
#12. People who have so much of their personality invested in the Internet can't really survive as whole individuals without it.
Mark A. Rayner
#13. We shot a bit of 'Hunted' in Tangier, and you are in a very, very different world. It's very difficult to blend in over there.
Adam Rayner
#14. Do you know what it's like," he said, "to feel that you're in the wrong body?"
"Well actually ... " the Doctor began, wiggling his own fingers in front of his face.
Jacqueline Rayner
#15. Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.
Adam Rayner
#16. Ursus stepped forward. 'Watch your tongue when you speak to the goddess!' he snarled.
The Doctor frowned. 'I think that would make speaking rather difficult,' he said.He stuck his tongue out and crossed his eyes to look down on it. 'Therterly inghockigal.' he said.
Jacqueline Rayner
#17. I wrote long reviews of all four books if you want to take a look.
Manny Rayner
#18. While Karen loved Simon for all his faults, Anna doesn't love Steve for his. She can't and never will. How can she, when Steve's worst fault leads to this?
Sarah Rayner
#20. Long gone are the days of the stylised old James Bond films with Roger Moore karate chopping his way through the bad guys - audiences are not going to buy it anymore. The genre has got quite serious now.
Adam Rayner
#21. Anna seems warmer every time I meet her, thinks Lou. Funny, that. Some people, who seem friendly on first impression, turn out to be disappointingly superficial, whereas the aloof ones, like Anna, emerge as affectionate and loyal.
Sarah Rayner
#22. This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile
Jacqueline Rayner
#23. Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.
Adam Rayner
#24. Anna has a stab of jealousy - she is thrilled for them, yet can't help but envy their happiness. Don't be ungracious, she tells herself. It is not your time; it is theirs. Lou is so lovely; she deserves to be happy.
Sarah Rayner
#25. People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.
Jay Rayner
#26. That's the tragedy of falling in love; it brings with it the potential for loss.
Sarah Rayner
#27. Well, that's just what I'm talking about. All Maslow would need to do is rub against your legs and start purring, and you'd immediately forget all this Hitler/Card nonsense. No one does PR like a cat. Why do you think I'm so desperate to hire him?
Manny Rayner
#28. I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.
Adam Rayner
#29. Paradise" is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to do. Nothing else conveys that sense of place that can inspire a blissful contentment.
Andrew Rayner
#30. In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.
Jay Rayner
#31. Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#32. If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.
Adam Rayner
#33. 'Homeland' is a thriller with a lot of cloak and dagger spy stuff, which is one of the things that makes it so much fun.
Adam Rayner
#35. I hate guns," replied the Doctor. "Which isn't to say that a bit of fantasy violence can't be therapeutic.
Jacqueline Rayner
#36. That's the great thing about university: you've got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.
Adam Rayner
#37. I was always interested in it when I was younger, but it was when I was at university, getting together with other like-minded theatrically inclined types, that I admitted to myself that I wanted to be an actor.
Adam Rayner
#38. It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.
Jacqueline Rayner
#39. I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but given my job, I need to have an understanding of what's on TV.
Adam Rayner
#40. I certainly have a sliver of me, which is definitely American, and feels a great pull towards where I spent time when I was very young, which is in California.
Adam Rayner
#41. Aside from being terrifying, it was totally humiliating. Rose Tyler, Barbie doll.
Jacqueline Rayner
#42. One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.
Jay Rayner
#43. Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.
Adam Rayner
#44. But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.
Mark A. Rayner
#45. I know this is my signature move, but it really does read much better in the original.
Manny Rayner
#46. When merely meeting someone is ridden with angst and open to misinterpretation, is it any wonder she is so hopeless at relationships.
Sarah Rayner
#47. There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.
Manny Rayner
#48. I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.
Adam Rayner
#49. What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#50. I couldn't imagine it, living a pristine life in this big Georgian house and everything. It seemed heinous. So I left him. I thought I'd go mad, if I stayed.
Sarah Rayner
#51. Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.
Jay Rayner
#52. English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.
Jay Rayner
#53. Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.
Jacqueline Rayner
#54. British audiences tend to want to see their own lives reflected on TV, whereas American audiences are quite aspirational and enjoy high-concept shows that show them lives that are perhaps slightly more exciting than they aspire to.
Adam Rayner
#55. For some people,being mean to others is the point of their lives.
Jacqueline Rayner
#56. History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#57. We rarely just hate people or love people. Normally, the people we have moments of the most impassioned hate for, it's because we love them so much.
Adam Rayner
#58. We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.
Adam Rayner
#59. My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural Norfolk. In primary school, I was teased immediately and mercilessly. I probably dropped that accent within about 10 days.
Adam Rayner
#60. Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#61. Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.
Jay Rayner
#62. A trapdoor had slammed open at the edge of the arena, followed by another and another. Slowly, reluctantly, animals were forced through the gaps. Lions, tigers, bears. "Oh my!" said the Doctor, as the trapdoors slammed shut again.
Jacqueline Rayner
#63. I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.
Adam Rayner
#64. If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.
Adam Rayner
#65. So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He's trained as a doctor. He's married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he's very much an American.
Adam Rayner
#66. Well, my suggestion could have been ironic.
Manny Rayner
#67. When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#68. History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
Tansy Rayner Roberts
#69. To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.
Adam Rayner
#70. Sometimes our motivations can be quite hazy, contradictory and multi-faceted, in real life.
Adam Rayner
#71. Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?
Jacqueline Rayner
#72. Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.
Jacqueline Rayner
#73. He saw a cross on a wall with another cross behind it, a shadow cross, the shadow of what God left behind when God was gone, the continued need for joy and beauty, a commitment to hope where there appeared to be none, and to grace in spite of everything.
Richard Rayner
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