Dawn French Quotes
The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
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I'm not a shouter, and I'm not a bully.
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, oftentimes, bluffing.
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The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.
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The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.
