Imelda Staunton Quotes
There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I've had many ideas come from clients.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.
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You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
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I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
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We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
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There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.
