Tony Goldwyn Quotes
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
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There's part of me that would love to wear a ruffly collar and do a period drama, but that's not going to happen. You don't have Asians in those sorts of things.
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I always joke that I want to be able to retire from boxing and still be able to look into the mirror without seeing scars all over my face. I love my sport, but I would rather not have to spend hours doing my makeup to cover up the memories once I retire.
Mandy Bujold -
When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.
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Of all the life skills I could have learned - First aid? Nah. But I can pour a pint.
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Life is a very emotional experience.
