Lesley Manville Quotes
I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.
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In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.
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I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.
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I have been devoted to my son, and there have been lots of jobs in the past that I haven't done because I didn't want to be away from him.
