Fiona Shaw Quotes
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is what everyone in the world has dreams of when they think about New York. And I thought, 'My God, I'm in Heaven. I'll be dancing down Fifth Avenue like Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.'
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My mother taught me to read.
