Jeremy Northam Quotes
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't like controversy.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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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!
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten.
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Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.
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I think the comfort of sneakers is really coming back. Everybody wants a cool pair of shoes, but they want to be comfortable.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
