Brenda Blethyn Quotes
I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
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The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion- very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
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I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
