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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Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.
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To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
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I've benefited enormously from an arts education and a music education in New York. When they cut the programs for funding, I was devastated.
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Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.
