Martin Freeman Quotes
I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.
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I do not believe so implicitly, as some cricketers and writers upon cricket do, in watching the bowler's hand.I prefer to watch the ball, and not anticipate events.
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America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.
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I got offered 'Black Mirror,' and my boyfriend and I were so excited. I used to read Charlie Brooker's column growing up.
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I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
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I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.
