Tom Hollander Quotes
When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.
Quotes to Explore
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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'Brahmotsavam' is a love story set in a family backdrop... It's all about relationships people have on different levels.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.
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I play well with everybody.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.
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You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.
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There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.
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I'm a man who doesn't even have a mobile!
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But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.
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As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.
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When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.
