Lena Headey Quotes
I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.
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It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.
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Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'
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I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.
