Tamsin Egerton Quotes
Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.
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Anita: My life works for me right now, but it wouldn't work for a child. Ronnie: Why, because you don't have a husband? Anita: No, because people try to kill me on a semiregular basis.
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The spirit may triumph where politics (the League and the United Nations), socio-political faiths such as Marxism, Italian Fascism and German National-Socialism - all have failed. I see our only hope in faith, charity, and in humbling ourselves before man and God.
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Evils draw men together.
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Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
