Martin Freeman Quotes
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!
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I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.
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Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called 'Battered Man Syndrome'; it is called comedy.
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Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help.
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Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
