Fiona Shaw Quotes
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.
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I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
