Fred Upton Quotes
I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were supposed to know how to act, write, and host. I thought it was all one thing. That's why it doesn't feel like I'm transitioning to acting: because in my stand-up, I do characters all the time.
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The street is a room by agreement.
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There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
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It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
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I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
