Martin Freeman Quotes
When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.
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No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.
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A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad enough to sign the Declaration of Independence. We put a man on the moon because Sputnik made us mad at being number two in space. Getting mad in a constructive way is good for the soul- and the country.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
