Martin Freeman Quotes
There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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When it comes to nurturing professional relationships and developing a community, LinkedIn is one of the best resources.
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Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that.
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
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Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.
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There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.
