Martin Freeman Quotes
My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.
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I'm just trying to get those marquee victories and continue to get those accomplishments so when the time comes and the vote is cast, hopefully my spot is secured in the Boxing Hall of Fame.
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For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.
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My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.
