Laura Carmichael Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
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People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69)
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I don't think there's a quick fix to this. I don't think there's any simple way to deal with this. And I will not support amnesty for anybody, I mean, that would be rewarding bad behavior.
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When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
