Laura Carmichael Quotes
When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
