Joanne Froggatt Quotes
My dad had a flock of sheep, which he used to milk, and then my mum used to make cheese and yogurt out of the sheep's milk and sell it. It was kind of an unusual upbringing, really.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
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Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
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When your private life has been dragged into public space, you tend to attain a zen-like composure.
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Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort,Qu’on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.
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I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.
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My dad had a flock of sheep, which he used to milk, and then my mum used to make cheese and yogurt out of the sheep's milk and sell it. It was kind of an unusual upbringing, really.
