Francesca Annis Quotes
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
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Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy.
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In truth, how much time do any of us really have?
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
