Natascha McElhone Quotes
I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.
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I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
