Christopher Eccleston Quotes
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
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You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.
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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
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They put over 100 million gates/transistors on a tiny piece of silicon. On that piece of silicon there are more lines than there are on a roadmap of London - and they work. There are very very few errors in a microprocessor.
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I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.
