Tamsin Greig Quotes
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
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Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.
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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
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I have no patience with dinosaurs.
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You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.
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A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.
