Maggie Smith Quotes
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
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"Well, well!" said my aunt. "I only ask. I don't depreciate her. Poor little couple! And so you think you were formed for one another, and are to go through a party-supper-table kind of life, like two pretty pieces of confectionery, do you, Trot?"
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
