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'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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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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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
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I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
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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.
