Helen McCrory Quotes
I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
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The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.
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He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.
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Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
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I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.
