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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When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'
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I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.
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It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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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.
