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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I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It's my young, selfish interpretation of that person.
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I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.
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One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.
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I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
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If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.
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I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.
