Martin Freeman Quotes
Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
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I just like playing with makeup and clothes - so I really don't feel like there are rules, and if there are rules, then I think it's up to you to break them.
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I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.
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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
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It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.
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Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
