Winona Ryder Quotes
Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
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I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
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The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.
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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles. But that can be quite scary. The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself. I enjoy seeing what the chemistry is between the people you might be working with.
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Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.
