Samantha Morton Quotes

If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

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• Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

  

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• Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

  

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• I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

  

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• Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

  

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• I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

  

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• Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

  

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• When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

  

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• The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

  

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• It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

  

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• My characters hope for better lives.

  

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• The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

  

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• If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

  

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• You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

  

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• Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.

  

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• If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Character
  • Night
  • Day