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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For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
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When the time is right, I will do female-centric films.
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I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.
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Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.
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I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.
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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.
