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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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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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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If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
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Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
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Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.
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Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.
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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.'
