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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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
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We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
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There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.
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The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.
