Francesca Annis Quotes
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
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The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
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I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
