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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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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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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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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People tell me it was a great left hook, but I wouldn't know. I never saw it
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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.
