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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If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!
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If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
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I really use social media to keep up with what's happening.
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'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.
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I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
