Shirley Henderson Quotes
American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
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If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
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A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
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Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?
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You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!
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My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why it was important to ask why. She made me understand that I don't have to believe everything I hear.
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The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.
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Some McDonald's restaurants are taking reservations on Valentine's Day. They are getting a lot of tables for one.
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I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.
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All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.
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A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.
