Lara Flynn Boyle Quotes

Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
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• I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Time
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  • School

• I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Country
  • English
  • Emotion

• How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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• For me, family has always come first.

  

  Candace Parker
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• Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
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• People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
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• Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? Why don't you have any fun?' My fun is Sundays. Anybody can go to the club. You don't have to be good at going to the club to go to the club. You have to be good to be playing on Sundays, and to me, that's what's cool.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  

  Mae Whitman
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• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
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• Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.

  

  Federico Fellini
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• When you play in the Champions League, you are switched on - very, very smart and focused on every situation.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
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• I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

  

  Luke Bryan
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• I'll put on a song that I really like and do bicep curls with two kilo weights the whole song.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
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• Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
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