Imelda Staunton Quotes
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s.
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I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie.
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I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.
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I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
