Dawn French Quotes
I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.
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I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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If you're convinced as an artist of what you're doing, the only move is to, no matter what people say or what management says or your best friends say or people on Facebook, do what you do, and people will find their way to it.
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I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.
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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
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'Protests are a part of our democratic heritage and our democratic privilege ... US and British efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq are finally getting those countries to the place that actually people might have the same privilege of protest'. The Guardian, 2003-11-15
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People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.
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TRP ratings affect me. There are times when the ratings are so low that we feel that we could have done something more. But that is about it. I don't stress over it too much.
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I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.
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I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.
