Polly Walker Quotes
I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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We care about margins.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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History is not hatred.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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If I meant that I missed Bochy and Hunter, it's the guys I'd been joking around with most. Hunter is like my brother, and Bochy is like my dad. But at the end of the day, I missed all the guys.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future.
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I was married to an Italian, and my son was born there. I've got lots of connections there, and I lived in the north, in the country about an hour outside of Milan, for quite a few years. I speak fluent Italian.
