Martin Freeman Quotes

Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character.

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• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Health

• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Right
  • Read

• Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • More
  • Exciting
  • Smaller

• I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Daughter

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Science
  • Practice

• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Way

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • America
  • Want

• I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Myself

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Age
  • Me
  • Dad

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• My literary success meant nothing to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Success
  • Me
  • Nothing

• My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Intention

• And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.

  

  Mats Sundin
  • Good
  • Bad

• I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Neighborhood

• In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

  

  Jim Broadbent
  • Up
  • Character

• There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Even someone as truly dark as Lorne Malvo is still very attractive, and you want to spend time with him because he's a fun character.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fun