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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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
