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'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.
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I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost every day.
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It's how I learned to play guitar - sitting with Led Zeppelin and Cheap Trick records, backing the needle up and learning how to play along. When the band started, by doing something that was very obvious to us and sort of traditional, it set us apart at the time from what was happening musically.
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Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.
