Gemma Arterton Quotes

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
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• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
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• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

  Victor Ortiz
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• I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.

  

  Zack Greinke
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• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

  

  Xi Jinping
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• Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
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• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!

  

  Garth Davis
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• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

  

  Eddi Reader
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• Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

  

  John Lahr

• Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

  

  Maximilian Schell
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• More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

  

  Kate Voegele
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• I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to be - in order to come up with a good excuse.

  

  Colin Hanks
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• My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
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• I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

  

  Gemma Arterton
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