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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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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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.
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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.
