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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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.
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Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
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I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.
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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.
