Tom Hollander Quotes
I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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I had an addiction to sugar growing up - major, major, major.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
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There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.
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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
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What software must not do is not the inverse of what it must do.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.
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I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.
