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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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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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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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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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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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.
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America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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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.
