Tamsin Greig Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I know I look super young.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.
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One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.
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Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
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I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age.
