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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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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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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The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.
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No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.
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Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.
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We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.
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Eighteen months ago I weighed 95kg and had a 40-inch waist. Now the waist is down to 34 inches and I weigh nearly 98kg.
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I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
