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 don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
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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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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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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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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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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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Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
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As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.
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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.
