Martin Freeman Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.
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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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I don't have sociopathic tendencies!
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I've got friends in bands who seem like they're always on tour, even still. It may be in some people's blood. I'm sure some bands do it just to earn a living or for the experience.
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In the 1940s, I was doing something called the Equity Library Theater in New York, when a movie company came to see the play I was in and offered me a contract. But the deal was, my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I'd have to have that fixed, too. And they didn't like my name; it was too common.
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I like out, I like the outside world.
