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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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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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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When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
