M. E. W. Sherwood Quotes
If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.
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The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.
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I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting. It was a lot of work - anything other than Shakespeare was less work. I had a lot of interesting roles, but I don't point to them and say, "That was more interesting than that," because I don't know what the criteria are.
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
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If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.
