Eddie Marsan Quotes
With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.

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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
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We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.
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In response to a question about what 'keeps her up at night', I worry about the fact that in K-12 education I can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you're going to get a good education.
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With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.