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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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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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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Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow. A life of friv'lous youth and worried age, Its futile course to futile death will flow.
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The West is now closed.
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I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.
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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.
