Martin Freeman Quotes
The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'
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Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.
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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
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Only photography has been able to divide human life
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Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
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The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.
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The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
