Talulah Riley Quotes
Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
