Imelda Staunton Quotes
I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
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I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.
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I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
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There will be great winds by reason of which things of the East will become things of the West; and those of the South, being involved in the course of the winds, will follow them to distant lands.
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Ah, 'The Departed' is really good.
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I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
