Tom Hollander Quotes
I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.
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I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
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I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.
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I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.
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I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.
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I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.
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For me, there is no hope without faith. Faith is a higher good. Faith in our divinity.
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When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.
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I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.
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I don't think it's that serious. If I feel good tomorrow and I feel like I'm not going to jeopardize missing games or hurt the team, I'll play. Otherwise, I'll sit down.
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Being kind is more important than being right.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
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Various irregular forces are operating on their own. It's easy for them not to follow the higher-ups.
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Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
