Gemma Jones Quotes
I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Actors don't have real value.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
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Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
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Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.
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Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they don't feel that it is something remote that they have to specially prepare themselves for, or dress up for.
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Design is art that people use.
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I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.
