Samantha Bond Quotes
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I never really learned photography.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
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Free Tibet before free trade.
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I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important to address the fact that the majority of what we see is Hindu, and based in Hinduism, and that it has a social and cultural history. Islam and Muslim culture are often now figured as these outside invaders who came into India, and this is in the service of a more right-wing nationalist discourse that is Islamophobic. And that's part of the worldwide Islamophobia moment that we're having right now.
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When you can’t climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…
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Roma come before everything else.
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Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.
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I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
