Helen McCrory Quotes
I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
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When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.
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I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.
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China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
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To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society.
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I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
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Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.
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I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.
