Jennifer Saunders Quotes
We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
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When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
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When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.
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My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
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Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.
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When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.
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I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.
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I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.
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I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.
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I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
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I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.
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The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
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The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to beat you over the head with an idea; they had a story they wanted to tell, and they had ideas, so they used the story as a way of fleshing out the ideas. It all depends on where they want to go with it.
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We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
