Tamsin Greig Quotes
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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'Fare well!' 'A whole world of pain is contained in these words.' How can it be contained in them? - It is bound up in them. The words are like an acorn from which an oak tree can grow.
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My hair grows into a fuzz ball - I just wanted it to grow downwards rather than outwards - but then I realized I couldn't play guitar with it that way. I couldn't do anything day-to-day without my hair getting in my mouth or my eyes or my food, so I just started tying it back, long before I knew what a man bun was.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
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Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
