Martin Freeman Quotes

I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.

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• For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.

  

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

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• At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.

  

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• I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

  

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• Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

  

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• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
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• Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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  • Prayer
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• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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  • Bad
  • Project

• You want your coach's blessing.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Want
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• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
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• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
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• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
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• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

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• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

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• I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

  

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  • Planet

• I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Children
  • Eyes
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• Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and trying and failing in order to get there.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Work
  • Trying
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• Le duc imita bientôt avec Bande-au-ciel la petite infamie de son ancien ami et il paria, quoique le vit fût énorme, d'avaler trois bouteilles de vin de sens froid pendant qu'on l'enculerait.

  

  Marquis de Sade
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• When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • World
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• Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Positive

• I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • People
  • Nasty