Christopher Eccleston Quotes
I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
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I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
