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 know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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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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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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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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My dad teaches film and has done for 40 years, so I've really grown up in a movie household. All the walls are covered in movie posters, and many of the evening meals at 7:30 revolved around film discussions.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.
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We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
