Molly Shannon Quotes
I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
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I cannot believe – and I say this with all the emphasis of which I am capable – that there can ever be any good excuse for refusing to face the evidence in favour of something unwelcome. It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
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The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
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I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.
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If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.
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I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the only way I can stop myself.
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I'm a one-nation Tory.
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
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I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.
