Sharon Horgan Quotes
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'
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I'm very open-minded.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.
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Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.
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Make us your slaves, but feed us.
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Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
