Tamsin Greig Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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I find it funny when women share makeup-free selfies on Twitter or Instagram, and it's such a huge deal.
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Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.
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My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
