Tamsin Greig Quotes
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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There's a role for the Mac as far as our eye can see. A role in conjunction with smartphones and tablets that allows you to make the choice of what you want to use. Our view is, the Mac keeps going forever, because the differences it brings are really valuable.
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Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
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I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
