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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Broadway is really my life.
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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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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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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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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.
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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.
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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.
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Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
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'The X Factor' saved me.
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Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.
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I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.
