Francesca Annis Quotes
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.
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I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.
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By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
