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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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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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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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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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
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We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.
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Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.
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I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
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I wasn't a great athlete.
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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.
