Helen McCrory Quotes
I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.
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I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.
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When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.
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Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
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I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.
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I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.
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Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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I needed to be myself and find my own identity.
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An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.
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I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
