Tamsin Greig Quotes
Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One Direction. Everything is on there.
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Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
