Tamsin Egerton Quotes

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

Tamsin Egerton

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• Acting
• Aesthetic
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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Today

• In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Politics
  • Disagree

• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Dying
  • Start

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Free
  • Myself

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Run
  • Safe

• I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.

  

  Zach Braff
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Share

• I don't believe in miracles.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Believe
  • Miracles

• A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Art
  • Business
  • Focus

• I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Team
  • Planning

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Society
  • Black

• Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Pretty
  • Acting
  • Stage

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• There is not love where there is no will.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Will

• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Doing
  • Challenges

• My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University of Maryland on an academic scholarship.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Mother
  • College

• There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Men
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Software
  • Programmer
  • Computer hardware

• I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Drama

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic