Talulah Riley Quotes
I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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There are guys out there faster than me.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
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God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
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When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
