Martin Freeman Quotes
I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.Martin Freeman
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
Nancy Friday -
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Barry Mann -
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.
Uday Kotak -
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.
Laini Taylor -
Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
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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.
Garrett Hedlund -
Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Nancy Kress -
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.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
Francesca Annis -
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.
Wade Boggs
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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.
Karin Slaughter -
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac -
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.
Iris Apfel -
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.
Zach Wamp -
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!
Mahalia Jackson -
They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
Eddie Condon -
What we demand is integrity and honesty of the research that is rendered.
Eliot Spitzer -
There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. ... The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, 'We're not perfect, but they're nuts.'
Barney Frank -
When I was growing up, I was surrounded by people that were listening to a lot of pop music.
Anne-Marie -
Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.
David Farr -
I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.
Martin Freeman