Martin Freeman Quotes
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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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 think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.
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The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair.
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If I've learned anything, it's to live in the moment, and the gift that cancer gives you is, you just assume I'm only here today, and I am going to seize that moment and cherish it.
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Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility
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I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
