Eden Phillpotts Quotes
Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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If you come from a military culture, and you go into see the general or the commander, and he talks to you very calmly and says, 'I'm very disappointed in you,' that's devastating.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
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What I really want is an Oscar.
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. I used to think that the notoriously bad cooking of the English was an example to the contrary, and that the English cook the way they do because, through sheer technical deficiency, they had not been able to master the art of cooking. I have discovered to my stupefaction that the English cook that way because that is the way they like it.
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I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.
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Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
