Gemma Whelan Quotes
There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.
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What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
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Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.
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All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.
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There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.
