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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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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I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.
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Don't get roped into talking about something that you don't really have passion for, and don't get roped into something you don't have expertise in. Why should somebody listen to you? If you're going to take somebody's time, you better deliver.
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I just play to good people; they seem to like what I do, and the more they like it, the more I play.
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
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Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
