Edmund Crispin Quotes
None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

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I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
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For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
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The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
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I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.
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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
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You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
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There must be some limit to the thing. It cannot go on to infinity.
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The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
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Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
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I'm not jumping on the Andy Johnson for England bandwagon - I'm driving it!
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Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.
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I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
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Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
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The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.
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None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.