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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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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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
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My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
