Rachel Griffiths Quotes
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
