Maggie Smith Quotes
I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty, all kinds of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts can't be entered into.
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I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, 'We're going to make a graph.' And I was like, 'Alright, nerds.'
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I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
