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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Many popsicles you'll find in a supermarket have a lot of unwanted sugar or preservatives, but with a few ingredients you can make healthier popsicles with any flavor you can imagine.
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I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had one. Whenever I'd go to her place, I was in the basement working on her computer, writing stories.
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Republicans have always talked about having a big tent, but it doesn't do any good if the tent doesn't have any chairs in it. Bringing Latinos to the forefront, bringing women in is absolutely critical.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
