Emilia Fox Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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I think that America has an obsession with history, really.
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Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death. He was a great guy with great energy. But this is a difficult business, and people's lives are sometimes difficult.
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I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.
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Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
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I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.
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I just get up and live my life for today - try and deal with it as it comes.
