Jane Horrocks Quotes
I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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There's a movie called 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age,' where I'm playing the King of Spain. It's a small role, but it's really, really interesting, the way I constructed it.
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I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.
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When you are born into a family like mine, you don't really know anything else. But you quickly realise that it's more about other people and how they are dealing with it. Some can be hugely in awe or uncomfortable, but to you, your parents are just your parents.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.
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I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.
