Shirley Henderson Quotes
I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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Free men are the strongest men.
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We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.
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I have a peculiar capacity for doing nothing and yet enjoying myself.
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I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was.
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I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.
