Francesca Annis Quotes
You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
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In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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I don't fear anything now.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
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I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
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I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.
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I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.
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You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.
