Zoe Wanamaker Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'
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I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.
