Samantha Morton Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.
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Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.
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The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.
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Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.
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You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
