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.Tamsin Greig
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
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.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
Floyd Skloot -
I've actually done a lot of comedy.
Natalie Zea -
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.
Mahershala Ali -
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
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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.
Jack O'Brien -
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.
Ted Turner -
If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
Adam Grant -
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
Ian K. Smith -
I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
Barbara Palvin -
Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
Ted Deutch
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The movie business is a big gamble.
Jackie Chan -
You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
Daniel Cormier -
You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
Taylor Lautner -
I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.
Laura Ricketts -
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
C. S. Forester
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In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.
Zygmunt Bauman -
The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.
Sam Altman -
The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.
Timothy Elpadaro Thedford -
Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements -
Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.
Ludivine Sagnier -
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.
Tamsin Greig