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		I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James McAvoy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Harold Pinter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kate Adie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Antonoff 
			 
			
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		I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kate Klise 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eddie Marsan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ferid Murad 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jacob Bronowski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't believe in an afterlife. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
				Antony Sher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lesley Gore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edna St. Vincent Millay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carolyn Chute 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I try to keep my life low key, and I don't like going to parties unless they're thrown by a friend of mine, or they're to do with a project I'm in, or it's because I've been nominated for an award. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James McAvoy