Martin Freeman Quotes
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
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I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
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I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.
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I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
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It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
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Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
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In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
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You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.
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What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn't your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don't have a movie that is as good as it could be, so it probably won't make as much money.
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Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
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I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
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I don't like affectation.
