Martin Freeman Quotes
I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I think I need security.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.
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Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them to know why you've created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have - why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?
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The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of life, including housing, employment, and public accommodations.
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
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I was a truant. And if you're a truant in New York City, the truant officer gets after you, and then you get into the courts, and then things happen which they really shouldn't. But I ended up in a very sweet reform school. It's the place you go to if you've got a really kind judge.
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I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
