Tamsin Egerton Quotes
Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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Of course I get hurt.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.
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I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
