Martin Freeman Quotes
I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.
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I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
