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 my daughter played volleyball in school, they were the Wildcats. Well, there are about a million Wildcats. Why don't you come up with another name?
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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.
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The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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I turned right onto the A410 which went north with suspiciously Roman straightness toward Aymestrey, which is less a village than a diorama of the last six hundred years of English vernacular architecture stretched along either side of the road.
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I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.
