Tamsin Greig Quotes
I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.
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There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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New is easy. Right is hard.
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Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
