Tony Blair Quotes
In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.
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I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.
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As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
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The dead don't die. They look on and help.
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Life is not a monotone but a many-stringed harmony, and to this harmony is contributed a distinctive note by each individual.
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Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.
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When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
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If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.
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Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
