Amelia Fiona "Minnie" Driver (Minnie Driver) Quotes
Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.
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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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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
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For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.
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Sometimes, if it feels right to do something, you have to do it no matter what others think.
