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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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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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
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The first thing I tried to write was a novel, when I took that time off in grad school. Then I didn't finish it. I went back to school, and then I started writing nonfiction kind of by accident.
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Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
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The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
