Saffron Burrows Quotes
Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
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They were very supportive parents in all my endeavors. They have very different approaches on how they give advice.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
