Zoe Lister-Jones Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I've learned never say never.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Of course, recognising our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
