Lesley Manville Quotes
I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.
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I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.
