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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Even though I'm a jazz-trained drummer, I cut my teeth playing rock.
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The Lilac Rose Collection isn't just about purple. It features dusty pinks and heather grays, which are more natural shades of purple and are perfect for creating a feminine smoky eye.
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A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
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People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
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I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
