Francesca Annis Quotes
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege. That's not to say people don't make mistakes - we're all human. No one's perfect. I'm just going to be myself.
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So I guess I'll remain the same. Sittin' here restin' my bones. Wish this loneliness would leave me alone. For 2,000 miles I roamedJust to make this dock my home. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.
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We should never remain hostages of our past.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
