Frances O'Connor Quotes

The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

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• The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
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• It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
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• When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

  

  Becky G
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• I do think one should have clean feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
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• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
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• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  

  Yul Vazquez
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• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
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• When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

  

  Beck
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• When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.

  

  Faith Hill
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• I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
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• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
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• No one is so good that he has no bad in him, & no one is so bad that he has no good in him.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
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• I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.

  

  John Rocha
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• The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

  

  Frances O'Connor
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