Francesca Annis Quotes
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
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I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.
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Beijing is a place where you can go and try on all kinds of hats. It's also a place where you can hide really easily.
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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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I started out as the assistant to the editor-in-chief at 'Ebony' magazine. She took me under her wing and gave me opportunities to take on bigger responsibilities very early on in my career.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
