Michelle Dockery Quotes
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.
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The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
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In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
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Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.
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Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
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I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.
