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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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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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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Oh, I love Rock to death, man. He doesn't inspire me as an actor but, I mean, come on.
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When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter.
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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.
