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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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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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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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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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 first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.
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Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
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My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.
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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.
