Zoe Wanamaker Quotes
Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
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Address to the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, in Königsberg (8 September 1930). The concluding statement was used as the epitaph on his tomb in Göttingen. Radio broadcast of the address, and transcription and English translation.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
