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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Beauty is a mute deception.
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I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.
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When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."
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Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.
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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
