Francesca Annis Quotes
I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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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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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?
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There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
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She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
