Maggie Siff Quotes
I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
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The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.
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My father had a heart attack and he has heart disease. He had a full recovery, and I'm very lucky, but it certainly made him look at the way he's living and how he's treating his body.
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I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.
