Tamzin Merchant Quotes
I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.
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I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.
