Martin Freeman Quotes
I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
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There is no element of genius without some form of madness.
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It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.
