Shirley Henderson Quotes
When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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I love India.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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I wouldn't mind being like X-Men and having the claws. I mean, I don't think they'd let me play football, but it would look cool.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
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'Then one can't make a living out of poetry?''Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.'
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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.
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When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
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I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.
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If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, "What's the worst thing that would happen if I didn't do this?" And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don't do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you're going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.
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When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.
