Christopher Eccleston Quotes
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Elves are cool, man.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
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America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth.
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Art thy not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it? Just as if the eye demanded recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose... so also is man formed by nature to acts of benevolence.
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I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.
