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 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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After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.
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How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!
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Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.
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In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact.
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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.
