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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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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...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and, as is widely known, I do not like church services.
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I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.
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It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
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You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.
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'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
