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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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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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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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen.
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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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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
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What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.
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I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.
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The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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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.'
