Lesley Manville Quotes
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
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What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's good, but you don't really know, and you don't see it until about six or nine months afterward, and I saw it and was pretty pleased.
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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
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We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.
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People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.
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I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.
