Martin Freeman Quotes

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

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• I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reading

• However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I'm a composer, man.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Man
  • Composer

• Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

  B. B. King
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Night

• I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Music
  • Art
  • Reading

• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Authenticity

• We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Start
  • Looking

• You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Smile

• I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Children
  • Hope

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Beauty

• The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Race

• Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • World
  • War
  • Together

• Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Best
  • Trust

• There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • People
  • Experience
  • Power

• I'm very physical. I'm extremely active, and I would love to do something a little more sexy and dangerous, a la Sophia Loren, or funny and humorous, a la Woody Allen. Getting to do things along those lines would be extremely wicked and a dream come true.

  

  Azita Ghanizada
  • True
  • Dream
  • Funny

• All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Middle
  • Appreciated

• While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • You
  • Question
  • Years

• It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Running
  • Stupid
  • Distance

• No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Trick
  • Grow Old

• If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

  

  Martin Freeman