Christopher Eccleston Quotes

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

Christopher Eccleston

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.

  

  Imran Amed
  • School
  • Theatre
  • Studying

• Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Why
  • Sometimes
  • Dance

• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Know
  • Fell

• Self-doubt kills talent.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Doubt
  • Talent
  • Self-Doubt

• Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Will

• The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Party
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Want
  • Old
  • Test

• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Make
  • Skill
  • Tight

• I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Group

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Sick
  • Laugh

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Think
  • More
  • Now

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

  

  Maurice Gibb Bee Gees
  • Up
  • Player
  • Sexy

• We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

  

  Heather Donahue
  • Nice
  • Ambition
  • Levels

• In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • School
  • Experience
  • Pain

• In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters.

  

  Neil Innes

• Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

  

  John Polkinghorne

• I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • School
  • Abuse