Martin Freeman Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.
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I am just happy that I have children. I don't care what they want to do!
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I really like the Spanish league and find it attractive.
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My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.
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I've been dedicated to the proposition that there's been no greater wealth-creation system in the history of mankind than the American free-enterprise system.
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I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
