Talulah Riley Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
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People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
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I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.
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Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
