Martin Freeman Quotes
I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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He does not have to know us so well, but He chooses to.
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It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.
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Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He's the 'wildcat' who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it's Ronnie Brown, it's Jerious Norwood, it's whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback.
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I want to be great at everything. I want to be the best at everything.
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What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people.
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I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.
